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To: ResponseAbility
Drip also works well for tree crops (pecans, e.g.) -- if the soil is sufficiently porous.

Excellent for truck crops, too, as you say.

Useless for field crops, though. That's a job for pivots or flood irrigation.

55 posted on 09/26/2009 7:37:44 PM PDT by okie01 (THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA: Ignorance on Parade)
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****Drip also works well for tree crops (pecans, e.g.) — if the soil is sufficiently porous.

Excellent for truck crops, too, as you say.

Useless for field crops, though. That’s a job for pivots or flood irrigation.****

Yep, field crops love pivots esp. when they distribute nutes.


60 posted on 09/26/2009 7:57:33 PM PDT by ResponseAbility (Bureaucratic healthcare is bad medicine.)
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