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TOUGH COMPETITION: TAPS began five years ago with only one contest sprinkler irrigated corn. Today, the competition includes six total contests, including sprinkler and SDI corn, both dryland and irrigated sorghum, winter wheat, and secondary sprinkler corn and cotton contests, as executed by Oklahoma State University. The farm management competition now includes six contests in Nebraska and Oklahoma.
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Testing Ag Performance Solutions is celebrating its fifth consecutive year of farm management competitions. Originally the brainchild of Nebraska Extension specialists including Extension educator Chuck Burr, Daran Rudnick and Matt Stockton TAPS knows humble beginnings, as it began its development in 2016.
Using the cutoff ratio on flood fields fine-tunes watering times. By
2/24/2021 A demonstration project in Nebraska proves that you can save as much as 3 acre-inches of water in furrow-irrigated fields. On average, the water savings is 1.4 acre-inches using the cutoff ratio to determine when rows are fully watered. That 1.4 inches saved can cut watering costs by $14 per acre (at pumping cost of $10 per acre-inch). The first irrigation is typically the most inefficient, explains Chuck Burr, University of Nebraska. “Often, roots have only penetrated 18 to 24 inches when the field is irrigated the first time. Crop water use is at a minimum, so there is little depletion of water in the soil at deeper depths.”