eprintid: 553
rev_number: 12
eprint_status: archive
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datestamp: 2010-11-20 21:53:30
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creators_name: Humpherys, A.S.
title: Automating Surface Irrigation
ispublished: pub
subjects: efficiency
subjects: autoclass
divisions: d_unclass
abstract: AUTOMATION of surface irrigation offers exciting
possibilities for today's irrigation farmer. It provides
a means for improving  water use efficiency
and cutting labor requirements. Excessive water is often
used in current irrigation methods; water application
efficiencies usually do not average over 50 to 60 percent. Although
many factors affect irrigation efficiency, the water
facilities and management practices used by the individual
operator have the greatest effect.
Competition for available national water supplies is increasing
rapidly. Irrigators eventually may have to justify
their use of water. They may not always be permitted to
use nearly twice the amount required to satisfy crop consumptive
use requirements.
date: 1967
date_type: published
id_number: 0073
full_text_status: public
publication: Agricultural Engineering
volume: 48
number: 6
pagerange: 338-340
refereed: unknown
citation:   Humpherys, A.S.  (1967) Automating Surface Irrigation.   Agricultural Engineering.      48(6):338-340.               
document_url: https://eprints.nwisrl.ars.usda.gov/id/eprint/553/1/73.pdf