- Author: Jeannette E. Warnert
Published on: June 22, 2016
![Overhead irrigation application methods and locations of application devices change as the plant grows. (Photo: California Agriculture journal)](https://ucanr.edu/blogs/anrnews/blogfiles/36996small.jpg)
Overhead irrigation application methods and locations of application devices change as the plant grows. (Photo: California Agriculture journal)
In California, 40 percent of agriculture is still irrigated by pouring water onto farmland, a much less efficient practice that drip and overhead irrigation. But those numbers are changing, reported Matt Weiser on Water Deeply.
Weiser interviewed UC Cooperative Extension cropping systems specialist Jeff Mitchell about the water-saving potential of using overhead irrigation, a system that is popular in other parts of the nation and world, but only used on 2 percent of California farmland. Mitchell was the primary author of a research article in the...
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