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Yoders use irrigation ponds to take the edge off summer droughts.

John Nye of K-Line North America explains the optimum number of pods per line for a portable pasture irrigation system.

Grass needs water, and an increasing number of graziers are showing interest in irrigation to provide at least a portion of it. What they've found isn't always encouraging.

A constant problem for orchard growers is harvesting fruit and nut crops around permanent irrigation systems. K-Line Irrigation solves this problem with lines of sprinklers that can be easily moved out of the way during harvesting.

An innovative irrigation system developed in New Zealand is catching hold with grassland and pasture irrigators on the West Coast.

Colorado rancher says, in irrigation, "simplicity is everything." Line-pod irrigation systems offer greater flexibility in irrigating pastures and their simplicity means that pasture managers don't have to "watch pastures shrivel up while waiting for a technician to come repair a center pivot."

There's over 120-thousand acres of irrigated pastures in our county... and most of them use aluminum hand line systems, a concept that's been around for over a half­-century.

Line-pod irrigation system revives Nebraska ranch and is simple enough for a former city businessman to manage and maintain. The 400-acre pasture equipped with pod-line irrigation has permitted carrying capacity to more than triple.

Intensive pasture grazing requires irrigation, and that typically means expensive systems that are time- and labor-intensive to move and maintain.

Three research stations have installed K-Line systems. These research stations will be evaluating the effectiveness of K-Line systems over the course of the next several years.