Claim · model-written summary
Overhead irrigation achieved equal or increased yields of wheat relative to furrow and drip irrigation
- Taxon
- wheat
Triticum aestivume0 - Treatment
- overhead irrigatione0
- Outcome
- yieldse1
- Direction
- equal or increasede1
- Comparator
- furrow and drip irrigatione0
- Setting
- Five Points, Californiae0
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Verbatim
e0“in studies near Five Points, California, we evaluated overhead irrigation for wheat, corn, cotton, tomato, onion and broccoli as an alternative to furrow and drip irrigation”
e1“With the exception of tomato, equal or increased yields were achieved with overhead irrigation”
Title
Precision overhead irrigation is suitable for several Central Valley crops
Jeffrey P. Mitchell; Anil Shrestha; Joy Hollingsworth; et al. California Agriculture 2016. doi:10.3733/ca.v070n02p62
Other claims from this paper (6)
- Intervention effect Overhead irrigation achieved equal or increased yields of corn relative to furrow and drip irrigation
- Intervention effect Overhead irrigation achieved equal or increased yields of cotton relative to furrow and drip irrigation
- Intervention effect Overhead irrigation achieved equal or increased yields of onion relative to furrow and drip irrigation
- Intervention effect Overhead irrigation achieved equal or increased yields of broccoli relative to furrow and drip irrigation
- Intervention effect Tomato yield with overhead irrigation was not equal or increased relative to furrow and drip irrigation
- Recommendation Overhead irrigation may be useful to a wider set of California farmers, with more research to support best management practices