Roosevelt County Irrigation Tour

On Wednesday, August 29, Agri Industries, the Roosevelt County Conservation District , Horizon Resources, Farm Equipment Sales in Culbertson, the Roosevelt County Extension Office, and the Roosevelt County NRCS office will be hosting an irrigation tour.  The actual tour will be held at the Dean Harmon farm, which is about 6.5 miles south of Bainville on County Road 1007. 

Topics and demonstrations for this tour include:

• Irrigation development and evolution- from dry land to flood and pivots

• Multiple pivot system with pressure sensing automatice control valves

• Tail water re-use

• Precision agriculture

•  No-till row crops

• No-till beets into alfalfa

•  Row crops on borders

• Seeding perpendicular to irrigation

• Seedbed preparation with defoliator

• Flood damage and cottonwood regeneration

• Reclaiming poor soils with sulfur-sulfur burner

• Display of seeding and beet equipment and the Conservation District dredge

After the tour has concluded, a free steak dinner will be prepared for all participants to enjoy.  To make it easy for people from our neck of the woods to get to the event, there will be a bus leaving the fairgrounds in Culbertson at 12:30.  For more information and/or details you are welcome to contact either the Roosevelt County Conservation District at 787-5232 or the Roosevelt County Extension Office at 787-5312.