Furrow Bed Irrigation System: Installation and Management

G98-1372 Management Recommendations for Blocked-end Furrow Irrigation

Kevin Harris Solar Powered Automated Greenhouse Irrigation System Installation

Over the last few years, particularly during this global recession, there have been cries for greater self-reliance from various interest groups and government. Food security has become a focal point for a number of small Caribbean states including Jamaica. The Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries has been actively promoting a return to Agriculture with the inclusion of technological aids to i...

Erosion Control in Furrow Irrigation Using Polyacrylamide

Currently gravity irrigation remains the most widely used in agricultural areas and 90 percent of plantings, the water is applied to the plots by gravity. One of the main problems with these systems is erosion, which is a by product of the erosive forces of water over the row, which brings soil loss and therefore decreases in crop yield. Erosion is the removal of surface soil material caused by...

Phosphorus losses in furrow irrigation runoff.

Phosphorus (P) often limits the eutrophication of streams, rivers, and lakes receiving surface runoff. We evaluated the relationships among selected soil P availability indices and runoff P fractions where manure, whey, or commercial fertilizer applications had previously established a range of soil P availabilities on a Portneuf silt loam (coarse-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Durinodic Xeri...

Scenario Studies on Effects of Soil Infiltration Rates, Land Slope, and Furrow Irrigation Characteristics on Furrow Irrigation-Induced Erosion

Furrow irrigation proceeds under several soil-water-furrow hydraulics interaction dynamics. The soil erosion consequences from such interactions in furrow irrigation in Samaru had remained uncertain. A furrow irrigation-induced erosion (FIIE) model was used to simulate the potential severity of soil erosion in irrigated furrows due to interactive effects of infiltration rates, land slope, and s...