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Big Sky Country | How full do you try to fill your soil—how long does it take?
I have flood irrigated field that takes over 12 hours to reach saturation point.
With ‘level basin” irrigation, you want to fill soil profile while you’re at it, but not leach on thru.
The field is level, a true “border dike” encircles it. (Some guys here have little dikes every 50 feet or so—-heading downhill—-call them ‘border dikes”—they’re actually ‘water spreading dikes”). You figure volume of water available and how long you want it to soak. (This determines field size) Then pull boards, let it into next basin which you are now pumping into.
First basin that comes to mind is about 6 acres, a 16” cristafulli, pumping outa the creek, needs about 12 hours.
Edited by littlejo 5/19/2024 14:23
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