Using Pipe Planner for Furrow Irrigation

A recent post on the Mississippi Crop Situation blog site provides a timely reminder for soybean producers as they move beyond planting and into enhancing/protecting soybean yield potential with irrigation.

Dr. Jason Krutz, Irrigation Specialist at MSU’s DREC, authored an article entitled “Pipe Planner: the Foundation Water Management Practice for Furrow Irrigated Soybeans“. In his article, Dr. Krutz provides a summary of results from the MSPB-funded RISER project that defines the water savings that can be gained by using Pipe Planner, the computerized hole selection program that was developed to supplant NRCS’s PHAUCET irrigation management tool.

Click here for a video that provides details about how to use Pipe Planner to more efficiently furrow-irrigate fields of varying sizes and shapes. Click here for a detailed presentation of the results from trials that were conducted to provide the findings summarized in Dr. Krutz’s above article.

Composed by Larry G. Heatherly, May 2016, larryheatherly@bellsouth.net