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The Irrigation Team at MSU was requested in 2016 to investigate the effects of flood and furrow irrigation by interested farmers. Traditionally, many rice farmers chose to flood irrigate their soybeans. Rice farmers were accustom to pulling levees in rice fields, so it was a natural fit to irrigate soybeans in the same fashion.
Rainfall has minimized the need for cotton irrigation in many areas up to this point. Some areas between Clarksdale and Tunica and isolated areas in the south Delta are dry and have irrigation water running. As everyone knows, cotton irrigation is not a cut and dry process. In simplistic terms, cotton growth stage and soil moisture status drive our irrigation decisions. One of these – cotton growth stage – is pretty straightforward.
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