Drip Irrigation for Row Crops

Farmers are adapting drip irrigation for row crops, and it is proving to be both economic and efficient. Mark Wildman reports from Bleckley County, Georgia.

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[BShade01]

Actually root intrusion is caused by the crop searching for water because it is being under watered. Leaky pipe or sweating pipe is much more prone to clogging from iron and calcium in the water than true driplines. Netafim drip lines have been used in sub surface irrigation for over 25 years with proper use and maintenace, The Netafim tube shown in this video uses a molded dripper inserted into the tube during manufacturing and is far superior to other "tapes".

[TheEEStudent]

@IDFarmBureau Or.. well, you could simply use the simplest, cheapest on-the-surface dripperline instead. As a surface solution it won't have to deal with roots, but It would be exposed to the elements and, of course to woodpeckers - if you have any woodies around, then forget me even suggesting this.

[TheEEStudent]

@IDFarmBureau Roots of beets, onions and potatoes will often clog normal drippers. You need either a special type of drip pipe called diffusional drip pipe ("sweating pipe") for that - or John Deere drip tape which will basically do the same job. We had a company in Israel which manufactured a diffusional drip pipe called in hebrew tzinorinch (צינורינץ') in the 90th. Wonder what happened to them.. Maybe someone bought them out :-). Anyhow, John Deere's drip tape would do the job just fine.

[IDFarmBureau]

Amazing innovation...I wonder if we could use this system on beets, onions and potatoes?