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Agriculture

The practice of cultivating soil, crops, and livestock and the preparation or marketing of those products.The practice of cultivating soil, crops, and livestock and the preparation or marketing of those products.

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border irrigation

Agriculture; Irrigation

Water is applied at the upper end of a strip having parallel berms or earthen dikes anywhere from 10 to 100 feet apart that serve to confine the water to a strip or rectangular ...

borders

Agriculture; Irrigation

Water is spread in sheet flow over a field from a head ditch or field ditches in a controlled flooding situation. Fields are either level or graded with either ditches or berms ...

brake horsepower

Agriculture; Irrigation

The power delivered by the motor to drive a pump in an irrigation system.

bubbler

Agriculture; Irrigation

An irrigation system that falls into the trickle category in which water is applied to the soil surface as a small stream or fountain. Discharge rates are generally greater than ...

capillary water

Agriculture; Irrigation

Water which remains in the soil pore spaces after gravity drainage has occurred. This water resides in the soil pores where capillary forces balance gravity forces such that a ...

center pivot sprinklers

Agriculture; Irrigation

An automated irrigation system composed of a sprinkler lateral rotating around a pivot point and supported by a number of self-propelled towers. Water and power is supplied at ...

irrigation efficiency

Agriculture; Irrigation

Proportion of the water that is beneficially used for plant growth to the total amount of irrigation water applied.