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peer-reviewed research article

Subsurface drip produced highest net return in Westlands area study

authors

Richard Smith, Boyle Engineering Corporation, Fresno
J. D. Oster, UC Riverside
Claude Phene, USDA-ARS, Fresno

publication information

California Agriculture 45(2):8-10. DOI: 10.3733/ca.v045n02p8. March-April 1991.

Summary

Net profits from drip-irrigated cotton fields exceeded those from furrow-irrigated acres.

author affiliations

Richard B. Smith isa Senior Agronomist at Boyle Engineering Corporation, Fresno; J. D. Oster is Extension Soils and Water Specialist at UC Riverside; Claude Phene is a Research Leader at USDA-ARS, Fresno.