New Mexico State University
W128 – Annual Report For 2002
Microirrigation Technologies for Protection of
Natural Resources and Optimum Production
Title: Subsurface Drip Irrigation for Northwestern New Mexico
State or Agency: Department of Agronomy and Horticulture;
Agricultural Experiment Station; New Mexico State University, Las
Cruces; Agricultural Science Center at Farmington, NM
Principal Leader: Mick O’Neill
Presentations
Oral and posters
O'Neill, Mick, Renae Pablo, and Todd Begay. 2002. Subsurface Drip
Irrigation in Northwestern New Mexico. February 15, 2002. Agronomy and
Horticulture Graduate Enrichment Seminar Series. New Mexico State
University. Las Cruces, NM.
O’Neill, Mick, Dan Smeal, and Rick Arnold. 2002. Subsurface drip
irrigation in northwestern New Mexico. NMSU College of Agriculture,
Annual All College Conference. January 3-4, 2002. New Mexico State
University. Las Cruces, New Mexico, USA.
O’Neill, Mick, Dan Smeal, and Rick Arnold. 2002. Subsurface drip
irrigation in northwestern New Mexico. Improving Irrigation Efficiency
in Agriculture Conference, March 20-21, 2002, Las Cruces, NM.
O’Neill, Mick, Dan Smeal, and Rick Arnold. 2002. Subsurface drip
irrigation in northwestern New Mexico. Improving Irrigation Efficiency
in Agriculture Conference, March 20-21, 2002, Las Cruces, NM.
O'Neill, Mick, Renae Pablo, and Todd Begay. 2002. Development and
Evaluation of Subsurface Drip Irrigation for Northwestern New Mexico.
W-128, Western Regional Collaborative Project for Microirrigation
Research. November 6-8, 2001.San Antonio, TX.
Drip Irrigation Workshops/Seminars.
April 11, 2002. Shiprock, NM.
October 17, 2001. Shiprock, NM.
October 29, 2001. Nanizad, NM.
October 30, 2001. Tohatchi, NM.
Newspaper articles
NMSU Agricultural Science Center At Farmington To Showcase Research.
June 10, 2002. Farmington Daily Times.
Ag Field Day Teaches Locals How To Plant. June 15, 2002. Farmington
Daily Times.
Liquid Remedies / Drip Irrigation Systems May Be Cure To Area’s Water
Demand. Farmington Daily Times. May 3, 2001.
Editorial: Wet Luxury Could Be Costly. Farmington Daily Times. June 4,
2001.
Drip Irrigation Study Could Alter Four Corners Farming Practices.
Farmington Daily Times. July 4, 2001.
Interviews
KOLB-TV, Farmington. Overview of the Science Center and announcement
for the ACS-Farmington Field Day. June 11, 2000 Field Day.
NMSU Agricultural Communications. ASC research overview. Subsurface
drip irrigation. April 24 – 25, 2001.
Farmington Daily Times. Subsurface drip irrigation. Field crop variety
trials. May 2, 2001.
Four Corners Business Journal. Subsurface drip irrigation. Field crop
variety trials. May 24, 2001.
KOBF-TV Farmington. Subsurface drip irrigation. Field crop variety
trials. Promotion for the Second Annual Four Corners Irrigation
Workshop. July 11, 2001.
NMSU Agricultural Communications. Subsurface drip irrigation. September
20 and October 12, 2001.
Publication
A new instructional web site was developed for irrigation scheduling.
See http://weather.nmsu.edu/cropinfo.htm
for crop information.
The new site includes
information on using Samani's temperature based irrigation scheduling
model.