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Is drip-based watering used at scale?

• BubRoss 7y ago
  At what scale?
  • riffraff 7y ago
    Large commercial monocultures, rather than personal vegetable gardens
    • JosephHatfield 7y ago
      Drip irrigation is heavily relied on by commercial farms in Israel
• mythrwy 7y ago
  It is. t-tape for instance is widely used commercially for irrigation of high value horticultural crops like strawberries, tomatoes, peppers etc. also drip systems (with individual emitters, not t-tape) are used commercially in many tree crops (citrus etc). https://rivulis.com/product/drip-tapes-drip-lines/t-tape-drip-tape/ https://rivulis.com/product/drip-tapes-drip-lines/t-tape-dri... However for agronomic crops (like corn, wheat, soybeans, alfalfa etc), which occur in mass plantings I'm not aware of any drip applications. Certainly at minimum if drip is used for these crops, it is extremely rare and probably not practical.