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  • Center pivot irrigation system watering corn in Nebraska.
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  • The All-American Canal takes water from the Colorado River though desert dunes in Southern California.
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  • Wes Robbins with an irrigation system that was converted to LEPA.  Water can be seen being applied very close to the ground so that it does not evaporate.  The nozzles have four settings so that they can used to irrigate or chemigate, i.e. apply chemicals as well as irrigation water.  This particualr type of conversion is one that Robbins helped develop so that farmers can do it at about a third the cost of a commercial conversion.
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  • Wes Robbins with an irrigation system that was converted to LEPA.  Water can be seen being applied very close to the ground so that it does not evaporate.  The nozzles have four settings so that they can used to irrigate or chemigate, i.e. apply chemicals as well as irrigation water.  This particualr type of conversion is one that Robbins helped develop so that farmers can do it at about a third the cost of a commercial conversion.
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  • Farm north of Lorenzo, Texas where farmer shut down the pump, took the wheels of the center pivot irrigation system and put the land into grass under the Conservation Reserve Program.  CRP pays farmers to plant marginal land back into grass and thus remove it from irrigation and the problems of wind erosion.  Amount of CRP land is limited in each county.  Many have already reached their limit.
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  • Obsolete center pivot irrigation systems piled up on a junkyard, remnants of older irrigation technology. New systems save water rendering the old systems uneconomical. The energy cost of pumping water from declining well levels makes it imperative to use the most water-efficient technology.
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  • Ronnie Dubois wrestles with the wheels off of old side roll irrigation systems stacked up in the back lot of Massey Irrigation.  These are the older, less efficient systems and Massey sells almost all of these outside the Ogallala area becuase they no longer are good enough for scarce water.
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  • Two farmers were digging out this center pivot irrigation system just east of Portales, NM that has been burried in the sand for seven years.  In this area of sand hills combined with high spring winds (and no ground cover on fields) sand dunes can form very quickly.  This area still has good water.
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  • Side Roll Irrigation System watering crop, Texas
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  • Irrigation system watering corn in the Platte River Valley of Nebraska.
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  • Center pivot irrigation systems have changed the geometry of fields throughout the American Midwest.
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  • Irrigation system watering corn in the Platte River Valley of Nebraska.
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  • Low energy precision irrigation (LEPA) nozzles watering a field in Kansas. Such nozzles save water by applying wth water close to the ground, rather than spraying it into the air which can cause great losses due to evaporation of precious Ogallala Aquifer water.
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  • Irrigation system watering corn in the Platte River Valley of Nebraska.
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  • A center pivot irrigation system watering alfalfa in Kansas, usually grown to feed livestock such as dairy cattle.
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  • Center Pivot Irrigation System buried in sand dunes, New Mexico.
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  • Obsolete Irrigation System Junkyard, Texas
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  • Irrigation system watering corn in the Platte River Valley of Nebraska.
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  • A Nebraska farmer drives through irrigation water that was running across a road near his farm. Such runoff is waste of precisious aquifer water.
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  • Low energy precision irrigation (LEPA) nozzles watering a field in Kansas. Such nozzles save water by applying wth water close to the ground, rather than spraying it into the air which can cause great losses due to evaporation of precious Ogallala Aquifer water.
    Ogalla Aquifer Camera Scans 20220167.jpg
  • Low energy precision irrigation (LEPA) nozzles watering a field in Kansas. Such nozzles save water by applying wth water close to the ground, rather than spraying it into the air which can cause great losses due to evaporation of precious Ogallala Aquifer water.
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  • Center pivot irrigation system in Kansas designed to save water from the Ogallala Aquifer. A "L.E.P.A." (Low Energy Precision Application) nozzle sends out streams of water close to the ground, thereby reducing evaporation by up to 50 percent or more.
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  • Irrigation System watering crop, Nebraska
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  • Low energy precision irrigation (LEPA) nozzles watering a field in Kansas. Such nozzles save water by applying wth water close to the ground, rather than spraying it into the air which can cause great losses due to evaporation of precious Ogallala Aquifer water.
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  • Out on his riding lawnmower to take a look at his irrigation well, 98 year old T.E. Lutrick swings a leg over the steering wheel to get a better look.  Lutrick has farmed here since 1920.  Put this well in in 1936 when  "Everyone thought I was crazy."  Got into irrigation to assure crops in bad years, a common early pattern.  One of the earliest irrigators in the Texas High Plains.  Colorful character.
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  • A center pivot irrigation system creeps across a field of corn in the Platte River valley of Nebraska. Corn is one of the biggest users of Ogallala (and High Plains) Aquifer water, most which either goes to produce ethanol or is used as lifestock feed in cattle feedlots.
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  • A center pivot irrigation system creeps across a field of corn in the Platte River valley of Nebraska. Corn is one of the biggest users of Ogallala (and High Plains) Aquifer water, most which either goes to produce ethanol or is used as lifestock feed in cattle feedlots.
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  • A center pivot irrigation system creeps across a field of corn in the Platte River valley of Nebraska. Corn is one of the biggest users of Ogallala (and High Plains) Aquifer water, most which either goes to produce ethanol or is used as lifestock feed in cattle feedlots.
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  • Thousands of fish lie rotting in the dry Republican River at the headwaters of the Harlan County Reservoir at Alma, Nebraska.  Republican always dries up in the summer as irrigation takes all the water, either through reservoirs for irrigation districts or by pumping the aquifer beneath the river.  Fish were killed when a heavy storm sent water down the river attracting the fish upstream.  Then the river dried up agains just as suddenly stranding the fish.  Fish kills are common along the Republican.  Area is under mandatory groundwater management because of declining supplies.  Nathan and Dave Wolf out to take a look.
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  • Thousands of fish lie rotting in the dry Republican River at the headwaters of the Harlan County Reservoir at Alma, Nebraska.  Republican always dries up in the summer as irrigation takes all the water, either through reservoirs for irrigation districts or by pumping the aquifer beneath the river.  Fish were killed when a heavy storm sent water down the river attracting the fish upstream.  Then the river dried up agains just as suddenly stranding the fish.  Fish kills are common along the Republican.  Area is under mandatory groundwater management because of declining supplies.  Nathan and Dave Wolf out to take a look.
    Ogalla Aquifer Camera Scans 20220260.jpg
  • Thousands of fish lie rotting in the dry Republican River at the headwaters of the Harlan County Reservoir at Alma, Nebraska.  Republican always dries up in the summer as irrigation takes all the water, either through reservoirs for irrigation districts or by pumping the aquifer beneath the river.  Fish were killed when a heavy storm sent water down the river attracting the fish upstream.  Then the river dried up agains just as suddenly stranding the fish.  Fish kills are common along the Republican.  Area is under mandatory groundwater management because of declining supplies.  Nathan and Dave Wolf out to take a look.
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  • Circles of fresh cut alfalfa follow the patterns of the center pivot irrigation system on a large hay operation near  Garden City, Kansas.  Agricultural production in the area grew up around increased irrigated production of grain and cattle feed.  Now the demands of the cattle industry have outstripped production and the area has become a net importer of cattle feed. Putting up hay in circular pattern because the center pivot leave deep ruts in a circular pattern making it more convenient to cut in a circle.
    Ogalla Aquifer Camera Scans 20220042.jpg
  • Circles of fresh cut alfalfa follow the patterns of the center pivot irrigation system on a large hay operation near  Garden City, Kansas.  Agricultural production in the area grew up around increased irrigated production of grain and cattle feed.  Now the demands of the cattle industry have outstripped production and the area has become a net importer of cattle feed. Putting up hay in circular pattern because the center pivot leave deep ruts in a circular pattern making it more convenient to cut in a circle.
    Ogalla Aquifer Camera Scans 20220187.jpg
  • Circles of fresh cut alfalfa follow the patterns of the center pivot irrigation system on a large hay operation near  Garden City, Kansas.  Agricultural production in the area grew up around increased irrigated production of grain and cattle feed.  Now the demands of the cattle industry have outstripped production and the area has become a net importer of cattle feed. Putting up hay in circular pattern because the center pivot leave deep ruts in a circular pattern making it more convenient to cut in a circle.
    Ogalla Aquifer Camera Scans 20220185.jpg
  • Circles of fresh cut alfalfa follow the patterns of the center pivot irrigation system on a large hay operation near  Garden City, Kansas.  Agricultural production in the area grew up around increased irrigated production of grain and cattle feed.  Now the demands of the cattle industry have outstripped production and the area has become a net importer of cattle feed. Putting up hay in circular pattern because the center pivot leave deep ruts in a circular pattern making it more convenient to cut in a circle.
    Ogalla Aquifer Camera Scans 20220148.jpg
  • Circles of fresh cut alfalfa follow the patterns of the center pivot irrigation system on a large hay operation near  Garden City, Kansas.  Agricultural production in the area grew up around increased irrigated production of grain and cattle feed.  Now the demands of the cattle industry have outstripped production and the area has become a net importer of cattle feed. Putting up hay in circular pattern because the center pivot leave deep ruts in a circular pattern making it more convenient to cut in a circle.
    Ogalla Aquifer Camera Scans 20220107.jpg
  • Circles of fresh cut alfalfa follow the patterns of the center pivot irrigation system on a large hay operation near  Garden City, Kansas.  Agricultural production in the area grew up around increased irrigated production of grain and cattle feed.  Now the demands of the cattle industry have outstripped production and the area has become a net importer of cattle feed. Putting up hay in circular pattern because the center pivot leave deep ruts in a circular pattern making it more convenient to cut in a circle.
    Ogalla Aquifer Camera Scans 20220100.jpg
  • Circles of fresh cut alfalfa follow the patterns of the center pivot irrigation system on a large hay operation near  Garden City, Kansas.  Agricultural production in the area grew up around increased irrigated production of grain and cattle feed.  Now the demands of the cattle industry have outstripped production and the area has become a net importer of cattle feed. Putting up hay in circular pattern because the center pivot leave deep ruts in a circular pattern making it more convenient to cut in a circle.
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  • Dave Searle, project manager for Marathon Oil Company, takes water samples from the companies contamination cleanup site west of Sidney, Nebraska.  Hydrocarbons contaminated the groundwater here porducing benzene concentrations of as high as 150 PPB.  Without acknowledging that their natural gas plant caused the problem, Marathon Oil has undertaken to clean up the groundwater by pumping from 14 wells in the pollution plume and braodcasting the water through a cneter pivot irrigation system.  The Hydrocarbons evaporate into the atmosphere.  Searly is collecting water samples at ground level.
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  • Soil salinization in the Grand Valley near Grand Junction, Colorado.  Salt within in the soil leaches to the surface, or is pushed up by groundwater. With only eight inches of rainfall per year the region is arid.  Farmers use irrigation water, which also forces the salt down into the subsoil, but also adds salinity to the nearby Colorado River.<br />
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Contact:  Lloyd "Butch" Reed,  NCRS,  ,  Grand Junction,  CO,    Phone:  970 242-4511  x113 Or:  Or:  Email:
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  • Alfalfa hay in curving windrows is being baled on an irrigatted field in Kansas. Such irrigation of hay to feed cattle is a big user of Ogallala Aquifer water.
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  • Soil salinization in the Grand Valley near Grand Junction, Colorado.  Salt within in the soil leaches to the surface, or is pushed up by groundwater. With only eight inches of rainfall per year the region is arid.  Farmers use irrigation water, which also forces the salt down into the subsoil, but also adds salinity to the nearby Colorado River.
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  • Sunset over irrigated fields in Kansas. This is an older center pivot system that was still spraying water in the air resulting in more evaporation.
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  • Community Festival celebrates Irrigated Corn in rural Colorado.g
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  • The Autumn Corn Festival in Haxtun, Colorado celebrates the areas agriculture by naming Crop Kings.  This year, for the third year in a row, the Irrigated Corn King was Mark Gueck  He rode in the parade down main street with the other crop kings on a Soil Conservation Service float.  Here he is seen before the parade on the local Coop elevator float put together by a friend.
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  • Wes Robbins, a Soil Conservationist with the SCS, tests soil moisture using a meter attached to burried gypsum blocks.  The block's conductivity varies with its saturation making the moisture testing possible.  Robbins has encouraged farmers in this arid region of eastern Colorado near Burlington to use the blocks so they can irrigate more effectively.  Robbins is in a low till field under one of the center pivot systems they converted to LEPA (Low Energy Precesion Application) water nozzles.
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  • A crop duster plane flies over a packing plant settling ponds spraying insecticide to kill flies.  Wastewater from the packing plant comes to a series of lined ponds where it is treated and then used to irrigate land, thus assuring that it will not get back into the aquifer and pollute it.
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