Tools to Implement Irrigation Strategies.

Producers have a big responsibility and deal with a lot of considerations in running farm operations.  Other than the agronomic, economic, and technical issues one has to deal with, the producers have to learn about and make almost day to day decisions on their irrigation system.  Here we present some of the tools that producers could use in order to implement irrigation strategies suitable on their farm operations.  The major focus of this session is to introduce and explain the decision support tools for irrigated crops available in Kansas and the Midwest region. Primarily, the Mobile Irrigation Lab website (www.bae.ksu.edu/mobileirrigationlab), which hosts a suite of web-based and downloadable tools that can help producers make pre-season (Crop Water Allocator), mid-season (Crop Yield Predictor), and daily (KanSched) decisions, will be featured.  During this session, other online tools available from other websites and regions will be briefly discussed.  It is the objective of the session to introduce the attendees to the online tools available and update some who already know the tools about new features.