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WSU Drought Advisory: Managing Irrigated Pastures and Grass Hay Land

Drought-stressed hay and forage can be higher in nitrates than usual. Prevent overgrazing to protect the pasture, and test cut hay and forage for nitrate levels to protect your livestock. Authors offe ...
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WSU Drought Advisory: Mint Irrigation Management

This drought advisory bulletin discusses the water requirements of mint. Since mint needs water all summer and has a shallow root system and low salt tolerance, growers have to focus on getting maximu ...
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WSU Drought Advisory: Oilseed Rape Keeps Irrigated Land Productive

This drought advisory bulletin discusses the cultivation, irrigation, and harvest needs of oilseed rape or canola as a rotation crop during drought years. Rape is a good alternative crop because most ...
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WSU Drought Advisory: Surface Irrigation Systems

Helps optimize your usable water appropriation using gravity flow. Presents the most efficient slope rates for open systems, gate and valve operation, reducing tailwater runoff, lining the ditches, an ...
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WSU Drought Advisory: Surge Flow Surface Irrigation

Surge flow irrigation is the intermittent application of water to furrows, rills, or borders in a series of on and off periods of constant or variable time spans. This drought advisory explains surge ...
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WSU Drought Advisory: Sweet Corn

Sweet corn growers must watch long-term forecasts and be flexible in dry spells to manage this high moisture commodity. Explains the general needs of corn, the influence of several factors, and the re ...
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WSU Drought Advisory: Vegetable Crops

Irrigation with sufficient water is vital to productive, profitable vegetable crops. This drought advisory describes 11 strategies for maximizing vegetable quality and profit when the water supply is ...
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WSU Drought Advisory: Visual Crop Moisture Stress Symptoms

This drought advisory is a chart that lists moisture stress symptoms, critical growth periods, and other important irrigation-related factors for common Washington crops, including alfalfa, beans, cor ...
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