Articles about Fertigation for agricultural irrigation
If you grow stone fruit, drip irrigation pays for itself faster than on almost any other orchard crop. Peaches, plums, cherries, and apricots all share one trait that makes drip such a clean fit: the crop you pick next summer…
Bananas drink more water than almost any crop you can name. A single banana plant in the tropics can pull 10 to 15 liters a day during peak growth. Over a full season, an acre of bananas in a hot…
Most farmers I talk to have never tested their irrigation water. They know their soil. They track rainfall. But the water coming out of their well or canal? It goes straight into the drip lines without a second look. That’s…
If you want to see where drip irrigation is headed globally, watch Japan and South Korea. Not because they have the most farmland, they do not. But because the pressures squeezing farmers there today are the same ones coming for…
Potatoes are picky about water. Not in a dramatic way. They won’t wilt at the first sign of dry soil like lettuce will. But get the moisture wrong and the damage shows up where you can’t see it: underground, in…
Watermelons are 92% water. That fact alone should tell you something about how much irrigation matters for this crop. But plenty of melon farmers still run furrow irrigation and call it good enough, or switch to drip without adjusting their…
I’ve watched a farmer pour calcium nitrate and magnesium sulfate into the same stock tank. Ten seconds later, the solution turned into something that looked like skim milk. That white sludge? Calcium sulfate, gypsum. It settled to the bottom of…
Peppers are drama queens about water. Give them too much and the roots suffocate. Give them too little and you get blossom-end rot, sunscald, and fruit so small they look decorative. Walk the line right and you pull 25 to…
I’ve watched growers blame everything but their injector when a crop goes sideways. The leaves yellow, fruit sets thin, and the instinct is to reach for more fertilizer. A lot of the time, the injector isn’t delivering what the label…
If you’ve ever walked through a citrus grove in July and seen fruit splitting on the tree, you already know what inconsistent watering does. Citrus trees are drama queens about moisture. Too dry for a week, then a heavy irrigation,…
