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Proceedings of the 2017 Central Plains Irrigation Conference

cpiaFebruary, 21-22, 2017, Burlington, Colorado 

UPDATE ON REPUBLICAN RIVER COMPACT ISSUES  ........................... 1

Dick Wolfe

THE OGALLALA WATER COORDINATED AGRICULTURAL PROJECT: OPTIMIZING WATER USE FOR AGRICULTURE AND RURAL  COMMUNITIES  .................................................................................. 3

Meagan Schipanski, Jonathan Aguilar, Allan Andales, Jose Chavez, Isaya Kisekka, Danny Rogers, Daran Rudnick, Joel Schneekloth, Tim Shaver, and Jason Warren

ARSPIVOT,  A SENSOR BASED DECISION SUPPORT TOOL FOR THE INTEGRATED IRRIGATION MANAGEMENT OF VRI CENTER PIVOT SYSTEMS  ........................................................................................... 5

Manuel Andrade, Susan O’Shaughnessy, and Steven Evett

INTEGRATING VARIABLE RATE NITROGEN AND VARIABLE RATE IRRIGATION MANAGEMENT: OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES  .............................................................................. 15

Tim Shaver, Richard Ferguson, Daran Rudnick, and Himmy Lo

CENTER PIVOT IRRIGATION SYSTEM LOSSES AND EFFICIENCY  ......... 19

Danny Rogers, Isaya Kisekka, Jonathan Aguilar, and Freddie Lamm

MOBILE DRIP IRRIGATION EVALUATION IN CORN  ........................... 35

Isaya Kisekka, Tobias Oker, Jonathan Aguilar, and Danny Rogers

MOBILE DRIP IRRIGATION RESULTS FROM FARM DEMONSTRATION  SITES  ............................................................................................... 44

Jonathan Aguilar, Danny Rogers, Isaya Kisekka, A. J. Foster, Bill Golden, and Kent Shaw 

SPRINKLER IRRIGATION MANAGEMENT OF MODERN CORN HYBRIDS UNDER INSTITUTIONAL CONSTRAINTS  ........................ 53

Freddie Lamm

DEFICIT IRRIGATION MANAGEMENT OF CORN IN THE HIGH PLAINS: A REVIEW   ........................................................... 66

Daran Rudnick, Suat Irmak, Chittaranjan Ray, Joel Schneekloth, Meagan Schipanski, Isaya   Kisekka, Alan Schlegel, Jonathan Aguilar, Danny Rogers, Donna Mitchell, Chuck West, Thomas Marek, Qingwu Xue, Wenwei Xu, and Dana Porter

IRRIGATION CAPACITY IMPACT ON LIMITED IRRIGATION MANAGEMENT AND CROPPING SYSTEMS   ....................................... 85

Joel Schneekloth, David Nielsen, and Alan Schlegel

TACTICAL IRRIGATION MANAGEMENT USING THE WISE ONLINE TOOL    ................................................................ 95

Allan Andales

IRRIGATION AND TILLAGE MANAGEMENT EFFECTS ON CANOPY FORMATION IN CORN   ............................................... 100

Rob Aiken, Freddie Lamm, and Abdrabbo AbouKheira

UTILIZING MANURE ON ERODED SOIL FOR IMPROVED  CROPPING   ..............................................111

David Poss, Merle Vigil, Maysoon Mikha, and Joe Benjamin

IMPACTS OF RESIDUE MANAGEMENT IN IRRIGATED PRODUCTION   ................................................................................ 116

Joel Schneekloth, David Nielsen and Francisco Calderon

SORGHUM YIELD RESPONSE TO WATER AND IRRIGATION MANAGEMENT   ............................................................................. 123

Isaya Kisekka, Freddie Lamm, and Alan Schlegel

ECONOMIC VIABILITY OF GRAIN SORGHUM AND CORN AS A FUNCTION OF IRRIGATION CAPACITY   .......................... 137

Jason Warren, Art Stoecker, Rodney Jones, Karthik Ramaswamy, and Tracy Beedy

IRRIGATED SUNFLOWERS IN NORTHWEST KANSAS: PRODUCTIVITY AND CANOPY FORMATION   ................................... 143

Freddie Lamm, Rob Aiken, Abdrabbo AbouKheira, and Gerald Seiler

ENERGY CONSERVATION USING VARIABLE-FREQUENCY DRIVES FOR CENTER PIVOT IRRIGATION   .................................. 155

Bill Kranz, Dilshad Brar, Tsz Him Lo, Suat Irmak, and Derrel Martin

PUMPING PLANT PERFORMANCE     .................................................. 167

Derrel Martin, William Kranz, Suat Irmak, Daran Rudnick, Charles Burr, and Steven Melvin

FIXED-WING UNMANNED AERIAL SYSTEMS FOR IMPROVED IRRIGATION MANAGEMENT  ................................ 188

José Chávez