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Irrigating Grass with a Center Pivot is like Planting Wheat with a Corn Planter. You're using the wrong tool for the job.

Pastures, where Serengeti grazing is practiced, have the appearance of a manicured golf course.

This 4 x 2 x 4 foot portable tank has made Nebraska cattleman Curt Morrow's rotational grazing system more feasible because all he needs to move it everyday is an ATV. The tank's quick recharge features ensures that his cattle have water when they need it.

A general rule for water consumption is that livestock need one gallon of water for each pound of dry matter consumed. As the air temperature increases from 50 to 90 degrees Fahrenheit, livestock need more than twice as much water.

Understanding and managing three main focus areas in grazing manage­ment when it comes to increasing the overall carrying capacity of a farm or ­ranch.

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.

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."

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.