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Supplemental irrigation by sprinkling increases delta sugar beet yields

authors

E. F. Nourse, University of California
F. J. Hills, University of California
D. W. Henderson
R. S. Loomis, University of California

publication information

California Agriculture 17(7):2-3. DOI: 10.3733/ca.v017n07p2. July 1963.

author affiliations

E. F. Nourse is Farm Advisor, Solano County; F. J. Hills is Extension Agronomist, University of California, Davis; D. W. Henderson is Associate Professor of Irrigation, University of California, Davis; R. S. Loomis is Assistant Professor of Agronomy, University of California, Davis.

abstract

Use of sprinklers to supplement the usual subbing method of irrigation increased October-harvested sugar beet production by 8.4 tons per acre. In addition to alleviating drought conditions, sprinkling increased the plant uptake of nitrogen and phosphorus from this highly organic soil.

author notes

The Jongeneel and Hechtman Farming Company and Hanneson and Riddle, consulting agronomists, cooperated in the Ryer Island tests.


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