Proceedings of the 2017 Central Plains Irrigation Conference
February, 21-22, 2017, Burlington, Colorado
UPDATE ON REPUBLICAN RIVER COMPACT ISSUES ........................... 1Dick Wolfe |
THE OGALLALA WATER COORDINATED AGRICULTURAL PROJECT: OPTIMIZING WATER USE FOR AGRICULTURE AND RURAL COMMUNITIES .................................................................................. 3Meagan Schipanski, Jonathan Aguilar, Allan Andales, Jose Chavez, Isaya Kisekka, Danny Rogers, Daran Rudnick, Joel Schneekloth, Tim Shaver, and Jason Warren |
ARSPIVOT, A SENSOR BASED DECISION SUPPORT TOOL FOR THE INTEGRATED IRRIGATION MANAGEMENT OF VRI CENTER PIVOT SYSTEMS ........................................................................................... 5Manuel Andrade, Susan O’Shaughnessy, and Steven Evett |
INTEGRATING VARIABLE RATE NITROGEN AND VARIABLE RATE IRRIGATION MANAGEMENT: OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES .............................................................................. 15Tim Shaver, Richard Ferguson, Daran Rudnick, and Himmy Lo |
CENTER PIVOT IRRIGATION SYSTEM LOSSES AND EFFICIENCY ......... 19Danny Rogers, Isaya Kisekka, Jonathan Aguilar, and Freddie Lamm |
MOBILE DRIP IRRIGATION EVALUATION IN CORN ........................... 35Isaya Kisekka, Tobias Oker, Jonathan Aguilar, and Danny Rogers |
MOBILE DRIP IRRIGATION RESULTS FROM FARM DEMONSTRATION SITES ............................................................................................... 44Jonathan Aguilar, Danny Rogers, Isaya Kisekka, A. J. Foster, Bill Golden, and Kent Shaw |
SPRINKLER IRRIGATION MANAGEMENT OF MODERN CORN HYBRIDS UNDER INSTITUTIONAL CONSTRAINTS ........................ 53Freddie Lamm |
DEFICIT IRRIGATION MANAGEMENT OF CORN IN THE HIGH PLAINS: A REVIEW ........................................................... 66Daran Rudnick, Suat Irmak, Chittaranjan Ray, Joel Schneekloth, Meagan Schipanski, Isaya Kisekka, Alan Schlegel, Jonathan Aguilar, Danny Rogers, Donna Mitchell, Chuck West, Thomas Marek, Qingwu Xue, Wenwei Xu, and Dana Porter |
IRRIGATION CAPACITY IMPACT ON LIMITED IRRIGATION MANAGEMENT AND CROPPING SYSTEMS ....................................... 85Joel Schneekloth, David Nielsen, and Alan Schlegel |
TACTICAL IRRIGATION MANAGEMENT USING THE WISE ONLINE TOOL ................................................................ 95Allan Andales |
IRRIGATION AND TILLAGE MANAGEMENT EFFECTS ON CANOPY FORMATION IN CORN ............................................... 100Rob Aiken, Freddie Lamm, and Abdrabbo AbouKheira |
UTILIZING MANURE ON ERODED SOIL FOR IMPROVED CROPPING ..............................................111David Poss, Merle Vigil, Maysoon Mikha, and Joe Benjamin |
IMPACTS OF RESIDUE MANAGEMENT IN IRRIGATED PRODUCTION ................................................................................ 116Joel Schneekloth, David Nielsen and Francisco Calderon |
SORGHUM YIELD RESPONSE TO WATER AND IRRIGATION MANAGEMENT ............................................................................. 123Isaya Kisekka, Freddie Lamm, and Alan Schlegel |
ECONOMIC VIABILITY OF GRAIN SORGHUM AND CORN AS A FUNCTION OF IRRIGATION CAPACITY .......................... 137Jason Warren, Art Stoecker, Rodney Jones, Karthik Ramaswamy, and Tracy Beedy |
IRRIGATED SUNFLOWERS IN NORTHWEST KANSAS: PRODUCTIVITY AND CANOPY FORMATION ................................... 143Freddie Lamm, Rob Aiken, Abdrabbo AbouKheira, and Gerald Seiler |
ENERGY CONSERVATION USING VARIABLE-FREQUENCY DRIVES FOR CENTER PIVOT IRRIGATION .................................. 155Bill Kranz, Dilshad Brar, Tsz Him Lo, Suat Irmak, and Derrel Martin |
PUMPING PLANT PERFORMANCE .................................................. 167Derrel Martin, William Kranz, Suat Irmak, Daran Rudnick, Charles Burr, and Steven Melvin |
FIXED-WING UNMANNED AERIAL SYSTEMS FOR IMPROVED IRRIGATION MANAGEMENT ................................ 188José Chávez |
