Center-pivot irrigation system for independent site-specific management of water and chemical application

Applied Engineering in Agriculture

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 187-198

  King, Bradley A ^a,b   Wall, Richard W ^b   Karsky, Tom F ^b  

^a Northwest Irrigat Soils Res Lab   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

Author keywords

Application uniformity; Center pivot; Chemigation; Irrigation; Site specific

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION UNIFORMITY; CENTER-PIVOT; CENTER-PIVOT IRRIGATIONS; CHEMICAL APPLICATIONS; CHEMIGATION; COEFFICIENT OF UNIFORMITIES; COMMERCIAL POTENTIALS; FIELD TESTING; IRRIGATION SYSTEMS; SITE-SPECIFIC; SITE-SPECIFIC MANAGEMENTS; VARIABLE RATE APPLICATIONS; VARIABLE RATES;

SPRINKLER SYSTEMS (IRRIGATION); WATER MANAGEMENT;

APPLICATIONS;

EID: 65549161886     PISSN: 08838542     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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