Irrigation Water Management

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Practicing IWM can help:
 

• Minimize water quality problems

• Reduce energy costs

• Improve crop quality and yield

Principles of IWM
 

• Distribution and application uniformity

• Irrigation timing and soil water holding capacity affect irrigation scheduling

• Soil moisture monitoring system to make informed irrigation scheduling decisions

• Installing at least one soil moisture monitoring probe per field

• Provide a graph for each field of documented soil moisture readings for the entire season

• Provide total precipitation in acre inches for each field at season end, including rain and irrigation

• Document daily evapo-transpiration (ET) for the field through the irrigation season

• Provide documentation of projected, scheduled irrigation recommendations throughout the season

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