|
New Mexico | High Mountain Valley flood irrigation should work fine.
( dead level flood is best )
Farther down ( lower valleys ) the soil is so dried out it does not freeze up in the winter any more, generally.
sooo on the lower it takes bout 3x more water to run a full run strait across.
Problem I see, is a lot of the large reservoirs are bout 15% of capacity, AND we only have bout a 1/3 of normal snow pack up high.
The West lives on high country snow.
It trickles down thru summer and that's the irrigation water.
West Slope "wash draw water runs " corn might work out great ( AZ mostly ).
It generally does.
Just depends on the monsoon. ( 3rd week of June start on monsoon generally ).
Most pivots up high are fed by canal flood water to the pivot head.
( few to No pivots in most high country SW areas that have good water)
Just easier to flood things and forget the pivots generally.
Edited by Markwright 3/18/2014 16:53
| |
|
I'll feed the wheat market bull with some pictures
