Irrigation Daze

The rain missed the farm on Friday so we've been madly installing all the necessary components to run irrigation during all hours of the day, trying to give most crops a drink before the intense heat arrives. Realistically we won't be able to provide water to all crops this week but are hopeful of giving a drink to at least 75% of our footprint. We're fortunate to have 3,000 feet of buried 3-inch pipe running around the farm with headers at each main field (installed in 2013). From the headers we run 1.5-inch tubes overland along beds and mostly tap into these with .5-inch drip tape (aka trickle tape). We have a relatively new deep well and strong submersible pump providing good flow and pressure. We can probably irrigate everything every 5th or 6th day with two 6-hour cycles each day, so at a given time we can add water to 1/12 of our footprint. Let's hope for some rain this coming weekend for us and the plants.