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Adjusting irrigation settings
Users can adjust the irrigation settings for a planting following the steps below: Under planting settings, open the irrigation settings tab If you plan to irrigate the planting using more than one water source, indicate the percentage of water that will be applied from each source. The sum of all percentages must equal 100. […]
Irrigation Method Impacts on CropManage Recommendations
The method of irrigating (drip, flood, sprinkler, micro-sprinkler, etc) affects irrigation and nitrogen fertilizer recommendations in several ways. First, the distribution uniformity of the irrigation method will affect the volume of water recommended. A higher application uniformity will reduce the volume of water recommended. Drip usually has a higher distribution uniformity than sprinklers. If 100% […]
Adding and Managing Fertilizers
A customized list of fertilizers used on your ranch is needed for CropManage to provide nitrogen fertilizer recommendations in units of fertilizer (gallons of fertilizer or pounds of fertilizer). In addition to the percentage of nutrients in the fertilizers, the density is needed for liquid (wet) products to convert between lbs and gallons. Create a […]