Evapotranspiration and Soil Moisture-Fertilizer Interrelations with Irrigated Grain Sorghum in the Southern High Plains

Jensen, M.E. and Sletten, W.H. (1965) Evapotranspiration and Soil Moisture-Fertilizer Interrelations with Irrigated Grain Sorghum in the Southern High Plains. USDA-ARS Conservation Research Report No. 5. 27 pp.

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Abstract

In 1956 and 1957 grain sorghum represented
37 percent of the harvested crop acreage in Texas. The largest concentrated area of sorghum
is in the High Plains where the proportion of
sorghum irrigated increased greatly during the
drought years of the 1950's. In 1959 the monetary
value of irrigated grain sorghum was estimated
to be about $100 million.
As reported by the U.S. Census of Agriculture
the acreages of irrigated grain sorghum harvested
in the 42-county High Plains area in 1950, 1954,
and 1959 were 387,000, 1 1 006,000, and 1,224,000
acres, respectively. The irrigated grain sorghum
acreage in the eight counties—Castro, Deaf
Smith, Floyd, Hale, Lamb, Lubbock, Farmer,
and Swisher—represented over 80 percent of the
total in the High Plains in 1954 and 1959.

Item Type:	Technical Bulletin
NWISRL Publication Number:	0025
Subjects:	Irrigated crops > Sorghum Soil > Soil water (soil moisture) Soil > Amendments > Fertilizer Soil > Chemistry Water > Evapotranspiration Mass Import - autoclassified (may be erroneous)
Depositing User:	Dan Stieneke
Date Deposited:	20 Nov 2010 21:57
Last Modified:	28 Oct 2016 14:47
Item ID:	1136
URI:	https://eprints.nwisrl.ars.usda.gov/id/eprint/1136