Shallow irrigation helps growers weather heat wave By Bob Johnson
Cool-season vegetable growers in the Salinas Valley turned to regimens of fre- quent shallow irrigation to weather an
August and early- September heat wave that brought 112-de- gree temperatures to the King City area. Excessive heat
Heat impacts on cool-season vege- tables can include burning edges in romaine lettuce, far left, and uneven head sizes in broccoli, left. Salinas Valley grow- ers recently escaped major heat damage.
can cause poor head formation in lettuce, uneven head sizes in broccoli, and wilt- ing or sunburn in cauliflower. But reports from the fields suggest that growers adapted their irrigation practices well enough to escape significant crop losses in the Salinas Valley. “I have not heard anyone complain to me about crop damage due to the recent heat wave,” said Norm Groot, Monterey County Farm Bureau executive director. “There were some minor quality issues and a few things that I don’t think they would really call crop damage at this point, so everyone got through it pretty well.” Heat-stress management begins with irrigating according to evapotranspiration data provided by the California Irrigation Management Irrigation System, a network
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of weather stations maintained in agricul- tural areas throughout the state. King City was the hottest area, but tem- peratures were also well above average during the late-August and early-Sep- tember heat wave at weather stations in South Salinas and Soledad. CIMIS data for late August showed that evapotranspiration levels increased
from 0.18 inches per day in late August to 0.25 inches per day during the heat wave, about a 40% increase in water demand. “We irrigate more,” said Mark Mason, farm input manager at Soledad-based lettuce grower Huntington Farms. “You water more, and you harvest earlier in the day because you can’t harvest at cer- tain temperatures.” Farms in the Soledad area escaped the extreme heat of the southern reach- es of the Salinas Valley. But the regional trend is toward scorching extremes, with
University of California researchers re- porting that recent high temperatures in South Salinas were markedly worse than average high temperatures from 2015 to 2019. Not only does Huntington Farms water more during heat waves, but the compa- ny also waters more frequently. “With drip, we put on a couple inches to keep it wet,” Mason said. “Everything has to be wet during the heat wave.”
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