Agriculture

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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field capacity (FC)

Agriculture; Irrigation

Maximum amount of water that a soil can hold for a certain period against gravity drainage. Put another way it is the amount of water left in the soil after all the free water ...

flood irrigation

Agriculture; Irrigation

Water is turned into a field without any flow control such as furrows, boarders or corrugations. This is the least efficient, least uniform and least effective method of ...

wild flood irrigation

Agriculture; Irrigation

Water is turned into a field without any flow control such as furrows, boarders or corrugations. This is the least efficient, least uniform and least effective method of ...

flume

Agriculture; Irrigation

Flow measuring device for open channel flow. Water travels through a restriction and the flow rate is determined using the water height on a staff gauge.

friction loss

Agriculture; Irrigation

Pressure losses caused by friction of the water on the pipe walls and turbulence inside the pipe. Friction losses are a function of the pipe length, the pipe's inside diameter, ...

full cover

Agriculture; Irrigation

The point in the plant's growth stage where the canopy covers all available ground space and using all available sunlight. Usually refers to row crops.