Irrigation

Irrigation

Terms related to the science of artificial application of water to the land or soil.

Industry: Agriculture

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Irrigation

Wheel line irrigation system

Agriculture; Irrigation

Also known as side-roll wheel move, or side move. Large-diameter wheels are mounted on a pipeline make it so that the pipeline can be rolled to the next position with less effort than hand-move. ...

Water table

Agriculture; Irrigation

The upper surface of a saturated zone below the soil surface where the water is at atmospheric pressure. If you dig a hole deep enough water will start filling the hole at the water table.

Weir

Agriculture; Irrigation

A flow measuring device for open-channel flow. Water flows over a particularly shaped restriction and the flow can be measured on a staff gauge. Commonly used by irrigation districts to measure ...

Water horsepower

Agriculture; Irrigation

The energy or power added to water by the pump.

The depletion of water from the soil as a result of crop transpiration and evaporation from the soil surface upon which the crop is grown. Evapotranspiration is commonly referred to as consumptive ...

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 has had a chance to ...

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 irrigation.