China's Record Corn Crop and Pressurized Irrigation Grows
From the Ag Information Network, I’m Bob Larson with your Agribusiness Update.**The dairy checkoff updated its Fuel Up to Play 60 program to help students and educators navigate the school year.
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**A favorable growing season and government policies that encourage crop rotations will result in a record corn crop in China, according to USDA estimates. Even so, China will be the world’s largest corn importer for the second year in a row.
www.agriculture.com reports, China is second to the U.S. as a corn producer.
All the same, China would still import 26 million tons of corn, the same amount as last year.
www.agriculture.com/news/crops/china-to-be-world-s-leading-corn-importer-even-with-record-crop
**Over the last 30 years, the number of acres irrigated using pressurized irrigation systems roughly doubled while the use of gravity systems declined substantially.
According to www.agrimarketing.com, in 2018, 72% of all irrigated cropland in 17 Western States used pressurized irrigation systems, up from 37% in 1984.
Pressurized irrigation systems use water more efficiently than gravity systems, with less water lost to evaporation, deep percolation, and field runoff.
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