Row-crop farming is an intensive practice requiring significant quantities of fertilizers and a stable water supply to ensure the highest quality yields possible. Row crop irrigation plays a crucial role in meeting each crop’s specific water needs so that plants can absorb the nutrients they need throughout the growing season. An efficient row crop irrigation system provides adequate moisture based on the plant’s phenological stage, soil characteristics, and environmental conditions where row crops are grown. Implementing the correct irrigation method enhances crop production, ensuring crops are grown with optimal water efficiency.
Hunter Agricultural Irrigation offers multiple pivot, linear, and solid set products designed to improve irrigation efficiency over row crops. Some of our spray nozzles are ideal for the germination of small-seeded crops. Other applicators are designed to deposit water straight down into furrows to prevent wind drift and evaporative losses at very low pressures.
i-Wob®2
i-Wob®2 provides the most uniform water distribution compared to any pivot applicator on the market. It is an excellent solution for row crop irrigation systems, ensuring consistent water application across large fields. Its protective shroud guards the sprinkler’s wear surface, enhancing durability and efficiency in irrigation for row crops.
LDN® LEPA
LDN® LEPA bubblers help ensure 95% to 98% of water pumped reaches the crop’s root zone, making them a highly efficient option for irrigating row crops. These sprinklers are installed 8 to 18 inches (20 to 46 cm) above the ground to combat wind-drift and prevent evaporation loss, helping growers optimize water use and improve crop production.
mini-Wobbler™
Senninger® mini-Wobbler™ sprinklers distribute water in an instantaneous, uniform application pattern over a large area, making them ideal for irrigation of row crops. Their low operating pressure and larger droplet sizes result in very low evaporative loss, maximizing efficiency throughout the growing season.
Xcel-Wobbler™
Xcel-Wobbler™ provides uniformity and a gentle, rain-like application, making it ideal for row crop irrigation in various conditions. It supports critical practices like germination, fertigation, salt leaching, and frost protection. Its low operating pressure and larger droplet sizes improve irrigation for row crops, ensuring water is applied efficiently with minimal waste.
LDN® Spray
The LDN® (Low Drift Nozzle) offers growers multiple ways to irrigate row crops, allowing for better control of the sprinkler’s distribution pattern and trajectory. Its streamlined body is designed to handle the rigors of traveling through tall crops, making it a reliable choice for row crop irrigation systems.
Xi-Wob™
Xi-Wob™ takes the instantaneous, uniform distribution pattern popularized by i-Wob®2 to semi-rigid PE and steel drops, offering a practical solution for irrigation of row crops. It provides the same low operating pressure, wide area of coverage, and low application intensity as i-Wob®2, making it highly effective in maintaining moisture levels for optimal crop production.
Control Your Pressure
Every system experiences pressure fluctuations, resulting in unwanted flow deviations and over and under-watering. Regulators maintain a constant preset outlet pressure with varying inlet pressures, which alleviates pressure differences that can cause an applicator’s area of coverage to change.
Senninger® black and white pressure regulators are renowned for their accuracy, durability, and ability to maintain the overall efficiency of an irrigation system.
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Bakersfield, CA United States
“I'm constantly looking for land where I could put this linear system on with this type of nozzle package because it's definitely paid dividends for us here at Tasteful Selections. I would recommend this for California production, especially for the amount of vegetables and the small-seeded products that are grown out here. I can't think of anything actually at this point that could improve what we're doing now.” - Bob Bender
Harrisville, QLD Australia
Ryan Leatch's pivot equipped with the i-Wob2 is now able to apply water at a rate of 18 mm a day using only 11 kW at the pump, which reduced his energy expenses to approximately AUD 3.19 per hour. With a uniformity co-efficiency of 98.4% he knows he is making the most out of every drop pumped.
