Annual/Termination Reports:

[12/09/2019]

Report Information

Participants

Davie Kadyampakeni (dkadyampakeni@ufl.edu) University of Florida, Ripendra Awal (riawal@pvamu.edu) – Prairie View A&M University; Freddie Lamm (flamm@ksu.edu) – Kansas State University (Zoom), Saleh Taghvaeian (saleh.taghvaeian@okstate.edu) - Oklahoma State University (Zoom); Clinton Shock (Clinton.shock@oregonstate.edu) Oregon state University; Manoj K. Shukla (shuklamk@nmsu.edu) New Mexico State University; Pete Jacoby (jacoby@wsu.edu) - Washington State University; Jirka Simunek (jsimunek@ucr.edu) University of California Riverside; Howard Neibling (hneiblin@uidaho.edu) - University of Idaho (Zoom); Kenneth Shackel (kashackel@ucdavis.edu) - University of California Davis, Dana Porter (dporter@ag.tamu.edu) Texas A & M university (Zoom); Naftali Lazarovitch (lazarovi@bgu.ac.il) BenGurion University; Bipul K. Biswas (biswasb@fvsu.edu) Fort Valley State University

Brief Summary of Minutes

• The annual meeting was held on November 10, 2019, in the Bordham Room C, in Grand Hyatt San Antonio, just before the start of the ASA/CSSA/SSSA Annual meetings at the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center. The meeting was presided by 2019 Committee Chair Dr. Davie Kadyampakeni.


• The venue chosen for the next meeting in 2020 was San Antonio, Texas at the joint Irrigation Association (IA)/American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE) Annual Meetings on Nov 30-December 5, 2020. Dr. Freddie Lamm will provide support with the society to not have registration fees and Dr. Ripendra Awal will preside over that meeting. Project members were encouraged to submit manuscripts to the special issue on ‘Soil Moisture Sensors’ who guest editor is Dr. Saleh Taghvaeian, one of the project members.


• Ken Shackel, Professor at the University of California Davis, was elected 2020 secretary for the W4128 group. Dr. Ripendra Awal and Dr. Amir Haghverdi, become 2019 Committee Chair and Vice-Chair, respectively.


• 3128 Project expired on September 30, 2019. The new project is W4128 “Microirrigation: A Sustainable Technology for Crop Intensification and Improved Crop Productivity”.Manoj Shukla provided updates from Dr. Steve Loring, project advisor, who could not make it to the meeting due to a conflict schedule. Dr. Shukla also presented to the group the 2017 National Water & Energy Conservation Award for USDA-NIFA Multistate Project W-3128.State reports were presented by Dr. Davie Kadyampakeni (University of Florida), Dr. Ripendra Awal (Prairie View A&M University, Texas); Dr. Freddie Lamm (Kansas State University); Saleh Taghvaeian (Oklahoma State University); Clinton Shock (Oregon state University); Dr. Manoj K. Shukla (New Mexico State University); Dr. Pete Jacoby (Washington State University); Dr. Jirka Simunek (University of California Riverside); Dr. Howard Neibling (University of Idaho); Dr. Kenneth Shackel (University of California Davis), and Dr. Dana Porter (Texas A & M university, Texas);

Accomplishments

<p>See attached minutes/report.</p>

Publications

Impact Statements

1. Declining quantity and quality of water resources in the region are driving adoption of efficient irrigation technology and demand for information resources. Microirrigation (mostly subsurface drip irrigation) is relatively widely used in the Texas High Plains, where affected land area is approaching an estimated 500,000 acres (increase from an estimated 20,000 acres statewide in 2000). Most of this land area is under cotton production, but agronomic seed production, declining water resources, cost-share programs and a growing winegrape industry also are contributing significantly to this growth in adoption of microirrigation and sensor-based / weather-based irrigation management.

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