There are a few common mistakes that growers should avoid related to their center Pivot management practices. Growers sometimes wait too long to begin irrigating, meaning surface moisture becomes depleted and the grower is left playing catch up. To compensate, they speed up the system and run it around the field every day. When growers…
There is a strong connection between irrigation, chemigation and fertigation, the goal being for each plant to receive a uniform quantity of water and additive. Uniformity of application is indeed the essential factor in successful chemigation and fertigation. Uniformity depends on several factors such as the homogeneity of water application, adjustment and use of injection…
The concept of applying fertilizers, herbicides, fungicides and other chemicals via center Pivot irrigation systems is fast becoming a major cost reducing method.
