"Michael Percy" wrote in message
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Gordon Couger wrote:

That report gives me an idea or the scale of irrigating in the UK.
200,000 hectares ..

Well, considering the scope of the report, it definitely should!

That paper is a nice over view of the situation. There is very little
in it that would be of practical value to some one putting in an
irrigation system.

Well, considering the scope of the report, it definitely shouldn't!

The guys I used to work wiht at Oklahoma State have
a good deal more that can help with decisions but the extension people
on the Texas high plains and the High Plains Water District can tell
you every thing you need to know in an hour if know the questions to
ask if you don't they can walk you though anything you need to know.
They are used to working with crop share landlords that just inherited
an irrigated farm and don't understand the way it works.

He certainly looked like he could need some help, lol, when he stood
there, blessed with the chance of his lifetime.... what he had been
wishing for: to manage a 10" perfect irrigation source freely delivered
to otherwise rainless fields. That way he would be producing massive
yields and with never a worry, he said....

and he should get away with that without a waterbudget, of course.

This is SO very reasonable, because he never made waterbudgets before and
they are foreign to uk anyway and the data is not quite right and the ag
researchers in uk are sleeeping and there is not much irrigate done in
england and yadayadayadayada. Christ!

Why should you expect research on specially irrigation when your government
won't support basic agricultural research at third world level?

Gordon