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User: Jarrod Rhoades
Created on: 2023-07-19
Observation Date 2023-07-19
Comment:
Irrigated corn in the LTER Irrigated Resource Gradient Experiment (Irrigated N-rate Study).
Equipment used: Irrigated with the Valley 8000 Linear Irrigation System.
Amount of water applied: 0.5666 inch of water was applied (as measured by six rain gauges).
Irrigation system delay setting: 32;
Irrigation pressure: 22 psi;
Pressure at the pump: 50 psi.
Time of application was between 9:55 a.m. - 11:10 a.m.
Weather conditions at 9:55 a.m. Sunny , 72.3 degrees F, wind 3-5 mph (3m high 5 minute average wind speed was 3.71 mph) wind gust 5.29 mph, from the East, relative humidity 60.2%.
Weather conditions at 11:05 a.m. Sunny, 77 degrees F, wind 2-6 mph (3m high 5 minute average wind speed was 1.95 mph), wind gust 6.37 mph, from the South, relative humidity 55.2%.
Meter reading at the start of irrigation event: 5,311,403;
Meter reading at the end of irrigation event: ?; There was a malfunction with flow meter and it did not provide a reading.
Total gallon of water used in this irrigation event (as measure by a in-line water meter): ? gallons of water was applied at time of irrigation.;
Average ? gallons per minute (as measure by a in-line water meter).
Areas:
Resource_Gradient-Irrigated
Observation Type:
Irrigation
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