Best Practices
Reading Soil Moisture (PDF 632KB)
Provided by ATTRA.
Overview of Water and Farming in California
Provided by California Farm Water Coalition
Scheduling
- Assessment of Irrigation Water Management and Demonstration of Irrigation Scheduling Tools in the Full Service Area of the Dolores Project: 1996-2000
- Irrigation Scheduling Checkbook Method
- Irrigation Scheduling for Fruit Crops
- Irrigation Scheduling Techniques
- Methods of Determining When to Irrigate
- Methods Used in Deciding When to Irrigate: 1994 and 1988
- Methods Used in Deciding When to Irrigate: 1998 and 1994
- Methods Used in Deciding When to Irrigate: 2003 and 1998
- Irrigation Scheduling Using C-Probes
- Irrigation Scheduling: Advantages and Pitfalls of Plant-based Methods
Water Management
- ATTRA - National Sustainable Agriculture Information Service
- Irrigation Management Using Electrical Resistance Blocks to Measure Soil Moisture
- Irrigation Water Management
- Applying Irrigation Water
- Double Your Yield with Half the Water: Is it Possible? (focus on alfalfa)
- Efficiencies and Water Losses of Irrigation Systems
- Irrigation Efficiency (General Principles)
- Soil Moisture Measurement Technology
- Effects of Water Deficits Upon Winegrape Yield and Quality
- Irrigation Principles
- Water Infiltration Problems in Tree Fruit and Nut Crops
- Regulated Deficit Irrigation and Partial Rootzone Drying as Irrigation Management Techniques for Grapevines
- Deficit Irrigation of Quality Winegrapes Using Micro-Irrigation Techniques
- National Sustainable Agriculture Information Service - Water Quality, Conservation, Drought and Irrigation (Webpage listing Publications and Links)