2017
Irrigating the Soil to Maximize the Crop - An Approach for Soybeans to Efficience and Environmentally Sustainable Irrigation Water Management
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Contributor/Checkoff:
Kentucky Soybean Promotion Board
Category:
Sustainable Production
Keywords:
Abiotic stressField management SustainabilityWater supply
Parent Project:
Irrigating the Soil to Maximize the Crop - An Approach for Soybeans to Efficient and Environmentally Sustainable Irrigation Water Management
Lead Principal Investigator:
Ole Wendroth, University of Kentucky
Co-Principal Investigators:
Chad Lee, University of Kentucky
Project Code:
Contributing Organization (Checkoff):
Kentucky Soybean Promotion Board
$12,085
Institution Funded:
University of Kentucky
$12,085
Brief Project Summary:

Crop irrigation has become a serious consideration of many farmers in Kentucky to avoid the consequences of dry weather during the growing season such as in the year 2012. For economical and for environmental reasons, functional soil properties and their spatial variability in farmers’ fields need to be known as good as possible for better managing the timing and the amount of irrigation. The objectives of this project are to identify a way to derive field-scale soil hydraulic properties and their variability in combination of remote sensing and soil measurements, to implement this information in a computer-based management system, and to scale-up the information from the point and field...

Unique Keywords:
#irrigation, #sustainability, #water quality & management
Information And Results
Final Project Results

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