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Hello, my name is Mike Hamilton.
I’m county agent here in Poinsett County.
I have with me today Nolan Evans. We’re
setting up an irrigation demonstration on
his farm. Nolan and his father farm here
on the north end of Poinsett County and
he’s called asking about this FAUCET
program on some fields up here that
he’s got, where he’s got them up on
beds wanting to water down the middles.
In the past, before I knew
about this program, I was
going out there haphazardly
and just punching a few holes,
and punching a few more holes
and it was really a time-consuming
ordeal getting all the holes and
getting where I could utilize the well.
But I was still having short runs
and long runs and I was having too
much water in parts of the field
and not enough in the other, and
I technically wasn’t saving any fuel
or any hours pumping. Wasn’t saving
any water on what I was doing.
Of course I heard about this
new program, went to see
Mike and we started figuring
out fields. And course like he’s
told me before, the more
information I could have on the
field, how long the runs are,
or how much it falls, how long
the pipe is, more accurate, he
can get all the holes and of course
the flow of the well. I took that,
of course I don’t have hardly
any level fields, I just generally
have them where they fall
a general direction. And once I
did this program, it made it
a lot quicker to punch the
holes, I could go out and
punch the holes all at one
time and that was accurate
and then it was more accurate
coming out at the end of the field
and I wouldn’t have as much
run-off and I saved on some hours
pumping, so it was just a win-win
all the way around.
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