Farm Irrigation Rating Index (FIRI)?A Procedure to Evaluate Both Irrigation Systems and Management

by Elwin A. Ross, West Natl Technical Cent, Portland, United States,
John D. Hedlund, West Natl Technical Cent, Portland, United States,



Document Type: Proceeding Paper

Part of: Structures for Enhanced Safety and Physical Security

Abstract:

The Soil Conservation Service USDA/SCS, concentrates it's technical assistance to cooperators on improvements of on-farm irrigation systems and improvements of water management to provide more efficient use of the finite water supplies. A Farm Irrigation Rating Index (FIRI), (Hedlund et al, 1985), (Spofford, 1984) has been developed by the SCS West National Technical Center (WNTC). This is now being published as an SCS - WNTC 'Technical Release'. This analysis procedure will provide consistency in the assessment of on-farm irrigation water use. The SCS-WNTC Technical Release on FIRI, provides a much more detailed explanation of the procedure and display of the supporting information than is presented in this paper.

Subject Headings: Irrigation systems | Water management | Water conservation | Systems management | Irrigation | Agriculture | Ratings

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