Symposium Concluding Remarks.

Irrigation Strategies and Management ASA community was created to advance the science and the use of water-smart irrigation practices. The need for water-smart irrigation practices stems from the fact that fresh water availability for irrigation is diminishing worldwide as a result of competition among competing demands, water policies and hydrology. The 2014 symposium has focused on different means of achieving irrigation strategies. Subsurface drip irrigation is water smart delivery systems that require some special considerations in its design and use. Execution of irrigation strategies can be facilitated by the use of leaf canopy temperature data, in-season leaf N determinations, decision support tools and understanding of historical weather trends. The use of one or several of these technologies can increase the efficiency in which water is converted into agricultural commodities while lowering production cost, thus enabling irrigation agriculture to being sustainable in the face of diminishing available water resources.