- Author: Chris M. Webb
Published on: November 3, 2009
Our office produced a great resource to extend good management practices for orchard water quality management. Topics include:
- Irrigation system design, maintenance, schedules
- Irrigating to meet plant needs
- Using tools to measure soil moisture and evapotranspiration (ET)
- Ways to limit contamination of runoff using integrated pest management (IPM), smart chemical use and proper storage
- Suggestions on how to improve soil infiltration
- Reducing water and sediment runoff
- And more
An electronic version of this resource can be found by clicking here. Hard copies are also available. Please contact our office if you would like a hard copy version.
Tags: commercial agriculture (307), Initiative A Clean Water (151), Initiative C Sharing Science (593), Initiative D Sustaining Ecosystems (162), Initiative H Managing Pests (215), Initiative I Energy for the Future (131), IPM (89), irrigation (59), local research (82), local watersheds (34), natural resources (116), water quality (93), water-wise (60)
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