For more information contact:

 

Marie Lotz, District Manager

Grant Co. Conservation District
1107 S. Juniper Drive
Moses Lake, WA 98837

(509) 765-9618

Why Practice IWM?

 

Practicing IWM can help:
 

• Minimize water quality problems;

• Reduce energy costs; and

• Improve crop quality and yield.
   

IWM:
 

• Distribution and application uniformity;

• How irrigation timing and soil water holding capacity affect irrigation scheduling; and

• How a soil moisture monitoring system is useful in irrigation scheduling decisions.

• Install at least one soil moisture monitoring probe per field;

• Provide a graph for each field of documented soil moisture readings for the entire season;

• Provide total precipitation in acre inches for each field at season end, including rain and irrigation;

• Document daily evapo-transpiration (ET) for the field through the irrigation season. Provide documentation of projected, scheduled irrigation recommendations throughout the season;

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