Bridging Continents Through Drainage: How Ohio’s Overholt Drainage School is Helping Solve Global Challenges
By CAROLINE KRUG, Editor The LICA Contractor
In early March, a group of six agricultural professionals traveled nearly 8,000 miles from southern Africa to Lima, Ohio. Representing Associated British Foods (ABF) Sugar and its subsidiaries in Zambia, Malawi, Eswatini, and South Africa, they came with a clear goal: to improve water management on their sugar cane estates and eliminate drainage issues threatening their crops. What they discovered at the Overholt Drainage School went beyond technology and technique. It was about community, connection, and exchanging ideas across continents.
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