Irrigation

An understanding of water use by alfalfa will help us understand plant yield response to both rainfall and irrigation management.

Irrigation season has wrapped up. Now is a good time to evaluate you center pivot to make sure it is ready for winter and for another growing season. Here is a quick list of things to look at before winter sets in.

Peter Drucker, an American-Austrian author once said, “Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things.”

DeJager Farms Inc. is a custom farming and management operation in Chowchilla, California, and is responsible for the management and supervision of over 17,000 acres of mostly forage crops along with permanent and other rotational crops.

Low-elevation sprinkler application (LESA) has been studied in the Pacific Northwest for several years.

Burns, Oregon, in the month of August is a series of sandy hills smattered with sparse, dead yellow grass traced with gravel roads that kick up grayish-yellow dust – until you reach the hay fields.