*July 1 through Today
Previous Year Total: 32.75"
25-year Average: 37.14"
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Welcome to the EID IMS Homepage
The
Irrigation Management Service (IMS) program was developed in the late 1970s through cooperation with local growers,
EID, the University of California Cooperative Extension, and local, state, and federal
governments. The program uses weather and soil moisture information to provide
growers with suggested irrigation dates and run times. Currently, the program
uses a
neutron probe
once a week to determine the soil moisture status and to access weather information from the
California Irrigation Management Information Service's (CIMIS) station #13,
located in Camino. This information is entered automatically into the irrigation
scheduling prediction software
(TrueISM),
which calculates irrigation dates and duration. Participating growers
receive the information in a weekly
Grower Report
by e-mail. There are currently 100 growers using the information to schedule
irrigations on 2,500 acres. At no cost to participants, the program is offered to all agriculture-metered irrigation
accounts in EID's service area. Contact Kirk Taylor, IMS Coordinator, at 530-642-4166
or IMSProgram@eid.org if you would like more information about the program.
Future Improvements
IMS is currently involved in the following grant-funded studies to improve program efficiency and effectiveness.
- Install soil moisture sensors and a data logger at all monitoring sites. Funding for the study was obtained from the National Resource Conservation Service's Conservation Innovation Grant program. The data loggers allow growers to access the soil moisture staus at any time instead of relying
on a weekly report. The loggers can also
monitor the
progress and effectiveness of an irrigation.
- Analysis of the soil moisture sensor data indicates that the sensors are related
to the neutron probe measurements in a site specific fashion. The District
has changes the grower portal so that farmers can input sensor information to
update the irrigation schedule prediction based on the most recent available
data.
Access past this point is restricted to growers
participating in the IMS Progam.
IMS Grower Portal
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