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A satellite image of circular fields characteristic of center pivot irrigation, Kansas Farmland with circular pivot irrigation. Center-pivot irrigation (sometimes called central pivot irrigation), also called water-wheel and circle irrigation, is a method of crop irrigation in which equipment rotates around a pivot and crops are watered with sprinklers.
Center-pivot irrigation was invented in 1940 [3] by farmer Frank Zybach, who lived in Strasburg, Colorado. In the 1950s, Stout-Wyss Irrigation System, a firm based in Portland, Oregon, developed a rolling pipe type irrigation system for farms that has become the most popular type for farmers irrigating large fields.
A small center pivot system from beginning to end Rotator style pivot applicator sprinkler Center pivot with drop sprinklers Wheel line irrigation system in Idaho, US, 2001 Center pivot irrigation. Center pivot irrigation is a form of sprinkler irrigation utilising several segments of pipe (usually galvanized steel or aluminium) joined and ...
The mechanism of a shadoof comprises a long counterbalanced pole on a pivot, with a bucket attached to the end of it. It is generally used in a crop irrigation system using basins, dikes, ditches, walls, canals, and similar waterways. [5]
Pardoo's new manager Scott Fraser had been there three weeks when Ilsa hit. Pardoo had 20 centre-pivot irrigation plants, used to grass feed the mainly Wagyu cattle. These were tied down ahead of the cyclone, but all but one was trashed. Additionally, many station sheds and other buildings were destroyed. The financial loss was estimated at $25m.
In 2006, Plastro Irrigation (founded in 1966), Roberts Irrigation (founded in 1969), T-Systems (founded in 1977) were acquired by John Deere to form its micro and drip irrigation business, John Deere Water. [5] In 2014, FIMI Opportunity Funds acquired John Deere Water, and changed the name to Rivulis Irrigation.
center-pivot irrigation. Also circle irrigation or water-wheel irrigation. A method of crop irrigation in which a long line of sprinklers mounted upon or dangling from a metal frame with multiple sets of wheels rotates slowly around a pivot at the center of a field, watering a very large circular area centered on this point. Water is usually ...
From the 1950s on, many areas of the Great Plains have become productive crop-growing areas because of extensive irrigation on large land-holdings. The United States is a major exporter of agricultural products. The southern portion of the Great Plains lies over the Ogallala Aquifer, a huge underground layer of water-bearing strata.