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About Irrigation Equipment

Road trip across America during the summer growing months and you’re certain to see irrigation in use in the fields you pass, particularly in the Midwest where the practice is particularly popular. Farmers across the world have relied on surface, sprinkler, micro-irrigation, and other irrigation techniques for thousands of years, and although the equipment has become more sophisticated, at its core the process still involves funneling controlled quantities of water from a source like a canal, dam, lake, or reservoir to an area where regular rainfall alone can’t provide sufficient watering amounts.

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Bauer Rainstar E41 Irrigation System

In addition to simply watering crops, irrigation is also used to help suppress weeds and enter nutrients into the soil in what’s sometimes called “fertigation.” Growers, ranchers, landscape contractors, groundskeepers, and others also use irrigation to water pastureland, keep livestock cool, protect against frost, and maintain landscaped areas. Whether you’re looking for towable irrigation reels, hosing, aluminum irrigation piping, hydraulic spray guns, motors, nozzles, or other irrigation equipment, TractorHouse.com has what you need with more equipment being added all the time.

Types Of Irrigation

Primary types of irrigation include surface, sprinkler, and micro-irrigation (or subsurface). Surface irrigation, also called “gravity irrigation,” is the oldest form and is still widely used around the world. The technique involves water seeping into the soil as it flows down slopes or hills across the surface.

Sprinkler irrigation types include fuel- and electric-powered center-pivot and linear-move systems. These variously utilize steel or aluminum piping, high-pressure overhead sprayers or guns, gas or electric motors, water pumps, reels, risers and traveling platforms, and other components to spray water on plants as the system moves across the field or rotates in a circular pattern on wheels. Micro-irrigation systems, also called “localized” or “trickle irrigation,” include low-pressure micro-sprinkler, drip, and subsurface drip systems. Such systems typically provide very precise control of water placement.

Irrigation Through The Years

The earliest form of irrigation is believed to have begun between 6000 BC and 5000 BC in the Middle East. Sometime between 1200 BC and 800 BC, the earliest agricultural irrigation canal system is believed to have been used in the United States, in what’s now Arizona.

Growers now choose irrigation systems based on the region, crop, field size and shape, water source, fuel costs, labor required, and other factors. To provide greater control, efficiency, remote monitoring, and greater accessibility to performance and management data, modern systems make use of GPS guidance systems, remote monitoring and control systems, touchscreen displays, smartphone apps, variable control, and other technologies.

Find Your Irrigation Equipment

You’ll find a big selection of new and used irrigation equipment for sale every day on TractorHouse.com, including equipment from such leading brands as AG-Rain, Bauer, Irrimec, OCMIS, and others.