Irrigation Scheduling with a Daily Soil Water Balance (Chart)
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In this lesson
You run a 14-day root-zone water balance for the maize field, flag the days on which the depletion passes RAW, count the stress days of the farm's actual plan and chart the depletion against the limit.
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- Bulk Density, Porosity and Soil Water Content from Core Samples Locked
- Available Water Capacity per Root Zone: TAW and RAW Locked
- Crop Water Need: ETc = ET0 × Kc and the Net Irrigation Requirement Locked
- Irrigation Scheduling with a Daily Soil Water Balance (Chart) Locked
- Fertiliser Rates from the N-P-K Analysis Locked
- Lime Requirement from Soil pH: a Two-Way Lookup Locked
- Drip vs Sprinkler vs Furrow: Efficiency, Energy and Water Cost (Chart) Locked