Producers getting ready for the row crop growing season have plenty of opportunities to sharpen their water management skills through schools being offered by the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture.
The Division of Agriculture is offering two schools: one will inform attendees on Multiple Inlet Rice Irrigation and the other will cover Surge and Soil Moisture Sensors.
The number of participants for each school is limited to 12 to 15 people. There is no cost for the rice irrigation school. The $400 cost of the Surge and Soil Moisture school includes eight sensors, a slide hammer installation tool and a manual reader for those that do not have the tools needed to use sensors. Participants construct sensors and install them as part of the school.
Multiple Inlet Rice Irrigation App School
This school covers how to use a mobile app and electronic levee files to design for poly pipe in rice fields and how to get the data from the tractor to the app.
March 20, 5 p.m. to 8 p.m., Rector Community Center, 740 East 9th Street. To register contact Stewart Runsick at 870-857-6875.
Surge Valve and Soil Moisture Sensor School
This school covers surge valve use and layout as well as the basics of soil moisture sensors and how to use them to schedule irrigation.
March 21, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., Rector Community Center, 740 East 9th Street. To register contact Stewart Runsick at 870-857-6875.
For more information on irrigation, contact your county extension office or visit https://www.uaex.edu/environment-nature/water/irrigation.aspx.
