It's puzzling to find that some people think that unless we use center pivots, it doesn't count as irrigation. It hardly even counts as agriculture. If it doesn't look like a circle from the air, then we should put a transmission corridor through it.
There are center pivots in Malheur County, but much of our most productive, intensively cultivated, furrowed fields lend themselves better to row crops such as seed crops, onions and sugarbeets, which do not do very well under center pivots. Pivots are useful on large acreages but that doesn't make the ground more productive than using wheel lines or even solid set sprinklers. One thing for sure, if you are going to want center pivots in the future, don't put transmission lines there first.
I hope our friends reading this blog recognize that high-value agriculture takes place without necessarily using center pivots. And those
are real pictures of a robin and a quail on fenceposts.
There are center pivots in Malheur County, but much of our most productive, intensively cultivated, furrowed fields lend themselves better to row crops such as seed crops, onions and sugarbeets, which do not do very well under center pivots. Pivots are useful on large acreages but that doesn't make the ground more productive than using wheel lines or even solid set sprinklers. One thing for sure, if you are going to want center pivots in the future, don't put transmission lines there first.
I hope our friends reading this blog recognize that high-value agriculture takes place without necessarily using center pivots. And those are real pictures of a robin and a quail on fenceposts.
