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| DOI: | 10.1016/j.agwat.2005.01.014 |
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| Web URL(s): | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378377405000430
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| Publication Type:
| Refereed |
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| Author(s): | Smeal, D.;
O'Neill, M. K.;
Arnold, R. N. |
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| Author Affiliation: | New Mexico State University, Agricultural Science Center, Farmington, New Mexico |
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| Title: | Forage production of cool season pasture grasses as related to irrigation |
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| Source: | Agricultural Water Management. Vol. 76, No. 3, August 10 2005, p. 224-236. |
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| Publishing Information: | [Amsterdam]: Elsevier Scientific Pub. |
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| # of Pages: | 13 |
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| Keywords: | TIC Keywords: Forage; Cool season turfgrasses; Pastures; Irrigation; Water availability; Irrigation systems; Water use; Fertilization; Seed yield; Harvesting
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| Abstract/Contents: | "A significant portion of the irrigated acreage in the intermountain western U.S. is comprised of cool season grass pastures. Droughts, coupled with increasing demands for limited water supplies in the region, have decreased the water volumes available for irrigating these pastures and other crops. Consequently, relationship between crop yield and irrigation (water production functions) should be defined for various species and cultivars to help growers and water managers make appropriate selections based on water availability. During a 3-year study on the Colorado Plateau, a line-source irrigation systems was used to evaluate the relationship between applied water and dry forage production of orchardgrass (Dactylis glomerata L.), tall fescue (Festuca arundinacea Schreb.), meadow brome (Bromus riparius Rehmann), smooth brome (Bromus inermis Leyss.), two cultivars of intermediate wheatgrass (Elytrigia intermedium [Host] Nevski), crested wheatgrass (Agropyron cristatum L. Gaertn. X desertorum [Fisch. ex Link] J. A. Schultes) and perennial ryegrass (Lolium perenne L.). Irrigation treatments, including precipitation, ranged from 457 to 970 mm in 1996, 427 to 754 mm in 1997, and 490 to 998 mm in 1998. There was a positive linear relationship between yield and irrigation for all cultivars when averaged over all the years but the relationships varied between cultivars and years. Orchardgrass, meadow brome and tall fescue produced more dry forage than the other grasses at the highest irrigation levels in all years. These grasses also produced the greatest rates of yield increase per unit of irrigation (average of 0.0129 Mg ha-1 mm-1) and exhibited greater yield stability from year to year than the other grasses at levels above 700 mm. The intermediate wheatgrasses produced more forage than the other grasses under limited irrigation (less than 600 mm) but the average production rate with irrigation (0.0066 Mg ha-1 mm-1) was only about half that of the aforementioned grasses. The average rate of forage produced per mm of irrigation was intermediate in the smooth brome (0.0096 Mg ha-1) and lowest in the crested wheatgrass and perennial ryegrass (0.0048 and 0.0034 Mg ha-1, respectively). These results suggest that orchardgrass and meadow brome be included in irrigated pastures receiving more than 700 mm of water annually while the intermediate wheatgrasses be selected for pastures receiving an annual water application of less than 700 mm." |
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| Language: | English |
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| References: | 29 |
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| ASA/CSSA/SSSA Citation (Crop Science-Like - may be incomplete):
Smeal, D., M. K. O'Neill, and R. N. Arnold. 2005. Forage production of cool season pasture grasses as related to irrigation. Agric. Water Manage. 76(3):p. 224-236. |
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| DOI: 10.1016/j.agwat.2005.01.014 |
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