Soil surfactants when utilized correctly, can optimize soil moisture that would otherwise be limiting and leave the cool-season grasses vulnerable to heat stress. When coupled with well established “best management practices” for irrigation efficiency (i.e., proper maintenance, moisture monitoring, irrigation scheduling based on evapotranspiration and other precision irrigation practices), soil surfactants can be implemented to fully optimize irrigation water supply and improve efficiencies.

Every farmer knows the cost of irrigating their crops, and anyone who has lost yield to disease and drought knows the cost of over- and underirrigating their crops.

If you own any type of electrical or pump control panels, these top five areas of concern – if addressed regularly – will add years to the lifespan of these devices, as well as reduce midseason failures that tend to happen when you can least afford them.

This article provides a quick guide to five strategies for managing ruts and recent research results of how a few strategies performed in field trials in Idaho and Utah.

Sprinkler irrigation has come a long way in the past 50 years, and pivot irrigation has seen tremendous advances in technology that improve production and efficiency.