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Southern Missouri | Precision leveled furrow irrigation that you drove through getting to Kennett. There are some really sandy streaks ,a lot of that right up and down highway 25 ,that are too sandy for furrow irrigation and you’ll see some pivots there and some blowing sand in spring that kills cotton and a sand fighter pokes holes in the ground that keeps the heaviest sand particles from contacting the little cotton and killing it . There are no pivots in my area just north and a little west of Kennett,only furrow irrigation that requires flexible tubing laid along high end of fields so no end rows hence everything mounted to be able to get bedded rows very close to high end of fields and on low end those furrows drain directly out into tail ditch so no end rows there either .We use permanent tall beds ,use same bed over and over each year that tools like do alls are used on to remove last years rows and trash from top of bed so mounted planter can run on it .Every square ft of land around me for miles and miles is precision leveled and furrow irrigated with high yields of Cotton ,corn , rice and soybeans . Missouri led the nation in state cotton yields in 2024 and it’s because of the big area of irrigated cotton and that being furrow irrigated in most of the area from Poplar Bluff east through Sikeston ,where Dewitt’s headquarters are , to the Mississippi River .Some of the land around us used to be pivot irrigated back when I was a kid ( I’m 68 ) but all those pivots were torn down and hauled off when the Precision leveling took over ,I’ve put it on here many times ,you can stand on my grain system and turn 360 degrees and every sq foot of farmland you can see is irrigated and you’ll not see one single pivot , every sq foot is irrigated,no circles with dry corners ,therefore the high proven yield on each farm acre not just the circle. Plus the precision leveling and beds makes it so that when it rains and it’s wet every bit of water stays away from the plants on top the beds and drains off the fields with the farmer doing absolutely zero for the drainage to happen to the precision leveled field and crops . There’s not one pull type planter anywhere in my area , lots of Deere fully mounted 54 ft wide 18 row x38 inch wide row planters that require the heaviest three point lift you can get and lots of weight on the front. That ultra bottle in the picture is setting on 15 inch flexible tubing that the pump is running on and putting water down those soybean rows , that flexible tubing lays completely flat when pump is off ,those beans are twin 7.5 rows on top of the 38 inch wide beds ,my corn is planted same way . Cotton is single row planted on top the 38 inch wide beds,same bed used over and over each year no matter what crop .The tubing laying machine in the picture holds 16 quarter mile rolls of flexible tubing and two men can easily put out 2000 acres per day , kind of same looking hydraulic machine will also pickup 2000 acres of it per day . Once it’s laid out ,to irrigate you simply turn on the big turbine pump and open which field valve you want to irrigate,takes about 12 hours per 40 acre block . Lots of 160s with one big turbine setting right in the middle of the field that has 4 forty acre settings so takes 48 hours for the turbine to water the whole 160 . Where we have cotton and spray many trips per season the sprayers drive right over the flexible tubing .Our water supply here is nearly unbelievable to most irrigators , I think it’s the best water supply of any irrigated area in the world ,punch a 3000 gallon per minute hundred ft deep hole hole anywhere you want to ,there’s many fields here that join by different farmers and they’ll be two 3000 gallon per minute pumps 20 feet apart running at same time all season,water supply never varies to either pump all season every year .
Edited by sloughclub 3/27/2026 03:59
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Question for MO Bootheel or AR Delta Farmers
