Dribble bar water on poor winter barley crops

[pockets153]

Getting a contractor in with a dribble bar and pipes this week to go over our winter barley with dirty water that’s been in our tower for a year. Do you think it’ll give it a perk up? Was going to put about 2200 gallon an acre on.

 

[davidroberts30]

a inch of rain is equal to 10x that rate

 

[Against_the_grain]

Yes it will perk it up

 

[pockets153]

Yes it will perk it up

Thank god something needs too

 

[richard hammond]

Thank god something needs too

I did the same thing on some poor OSR and today it does look better, there is no technical reason why it does but any port in a storm!!

 

[Brisel]

2200 gallons/acre is 2.4 mm rain equivalent (24,660 l/ha) if my maths is correct. 10,000 litres/ha = 1mm rainfall. There will be some plant nutrients in it too, so it will help a bit.

 

[Al R]

22,650 UK gallons/acre is 1 inch of rain so yes Brisel your close enough at that..
If it was me I’d be putting the volume on twice 6 hours apart ideally so that the first application softens the ground.

it’s also worth taking into account that once you start irrigating you have to keep at it, if you have a set volume like enough water to do 1” on 100 acre, your better off sacrificing 50 acre and putting 2” on the other 50 acre.