Cheapest way to move dirt is on paper. A good plan is only a few hours of a laser bucket burning around. But the lesson we all learnt this year was water is king, and to get in on the crop when needed. Look forward to what you do either way. Is the block not long enough for a lateral move? Then only 1 motor and pump out of a Center drain?
Is flood irrigation and pivot irrigation just as effective as one and other? In terms of yield increase per ha and yield increase per meg of water. Great channel too mate. I work in dry land ag in WA and the irrigation and summer crop is fascinating.
It depends a little on what crop you are growing, with a pivot if I only want to apply 20mm I can. Flood you don’t really have control, would average 60mm but it does generally depend on how dry the profile is. When water allocation is low (the amount of water we get) pivots win hands down. If the ground is reasonably flat, flood makes sense because it’s become cheaper to shift dirt, we don’t have to knock trees over and as with most things technology has made it so we can automate it. Cheers for the feedback👍
" here now " ---- can understand what that might be with no camera ~ ( new viewer , great channel btw )
Sounds like the flood irritation might be the go JB, be interesting to see what you do and how in the end
Crazy the fires thankfully our fire fighters gave up there christmas and new years
Cheapest way to move dirt is on paper. A good plan is only a few hours of a laser bucket burning around.
But the lesson we all learnt this year was water is king, and to get in on the crop when needed. Look forward to what you do either way. Is the block not long enough for a lateral move? Then only 1 motor and pump out of a Center drain?
A lateral was always sort of the plan but we’d have to tip to many trees over to do it
Is flood irrigation and pivot irrigation just as effective as one and other? In terms of yield increase per ha and yield increase per meg of water.
Great channel too mate. I work in dry land ag in WA and the irrigation and summer crop is fascinating.
It depends a little on what crop you are growing, with a pivot if I only want to apply 20mm I can. Flood you don’t really have control, would average 60mm but it does generally depend on how dry the profile is.
When water allocation is low (the amount of water we get) pivots win hands down.
If the ground is reasonably flat, flood makes sense because it’s become cheaper to shift dirt, we don’t have to knock trees over and as with most things technology has made it so we can automate it.
Cheers for the feedback👍
Thanks. How many sections would those pivots be that you costed? Are they the longest ones you see around?
I think it would be around 7 spans, you do see them a lot big than that.
370k OMG that’s insane. Who can afford them these days.