How to save irrigation water

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Simple and elegant concept of Circular Buffer Strips (CBS) utilizes partial pivots (only part of the pivot #irrigated) created by declining well outputs and rearranges #dryland portion into circles of buffer strips of #native cool and warm season #perennial grass mixtures alternating with crop strips to enhance multiple #ecosystem services. The long term, multidisciplinary, landscape level study is showing promising results to make great impact in the Great Plains. Some of the potential benefits expected from the CBS systems are:
Improve #microclimate and productivity (reduce wind, crop stress and protect plants)
Improve water cycle and water use efficiency (capture more precipitation and reduce losses)
Improve carbon #sequestration (deeper root, longer growing season, and higher productivity)
Protect soil and crop (reduce wind, soil abrasion injury)
Increase #biodiversity (microbial, insects, plants and wildlife)
Circular rings trap #agrochemicals, water and soil moving in any direction (improve efficiency)
Better quality of life (reduced pollution, improved air quality, diverse wildlife)
Practical benefits (well pressure, pivot tire, wiper #irrigation)
ASC-Clovis faculty, Drs. Sangu Angadi and Rajan Ghimire are members of this project. Overall goal of this project is to develop a technology that can be easily adopted over the entire Great Plain to improve multiple ecosystem services while sustaining #Ogallala Aquifer longer.