IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/eee/agiwat/v105y2012icp1-7.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Evapotranspiration potential of forages irrigated with saline-sodic drainage water

Author

Listed:
  • Benes, S.E.
  • Adhikari, D.D.
  • Grattan, S.R.
  • Snyder, R.L.

Abstract

In the western San Joaquin Valley (SJV) of California, re-use of saline-sodic drainage water (DW) for the irrigation of salt tolerant forages and field crops is an important strategy for drainage water reduction and to extend irrigation water supplies. Drainage reuse designs require estimates of crop water use under saline conditions, so this study employed two methods to estimate the actual evapotranspiration (ETa) of saline-irrigated forages. Using sand-filled drainage lysimeters, ET was measured for ‘Jose’ tall wheatgrass (TWG; Thinopyrum ponticum var. ‘Jose’) creeping wildrye (CWR; Leymus triticoides, var. ‘Rio’) and Paspalum (Paspalum vaginatum, var. ‘SeaIsle’) irrigated with saline DW with an electrical conductivity (EC) averaging 13.2dSm−1. Annual ET in 2005 (20 January to 28 December) was 1470mm for TWG, 1376mm for CWR, and 1275mm for Paspalum. Comparing to standardized reference evapotranspiration (ETo), the annual (ETa/ETo)lys ratios in 2005 were 0.98 for TWG, 0.92 for CWR, and 0.85 for Paspalum. Forage ET was also estimated by a surface renewal (SR) method in large pastures of TWG and CWR irrigated with saline DW. For TWG, the seasonal (ETa/ETo)SR in 2005 was 0.94, slightly lower than the ratio of 0.98 determined by lysimetry. For CWR, the seasonal (ETa/ETo)SR was only 0.73 in 2005; however, in 2006 it was 1.03 which was closer to the ratio of 0.92 determined by lysimetry in 2005. Conditions were less uniform in the CWR pasture as compared to the TWG pasture which may have caused the greater variability in (ETa/ETo)SR for this forage. These findings, along with earlier work, demonstrate that tall wheatgrass, creeping wildrye and Paspalum are suitable candidates for DW re-use systems for the western SJV due to their high ET under saline irrigation and adequate dry matter production and forage quality.

Suggested Citation

  • Benes, S.E. & Adhikari, D.D. & Grattan, S.R. & Snyder, R.L., 2012. "Evapotranspiration potential of forages irrigated with saline-sodic drainage water," Agricultural Water Management, Elsevier, vol. 105(C), pages 1-7.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:agiwat:v:105:y:2012:i:c:p:1-7
    DOI: 10.1016/j.agwat.2011.11.019
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378377411003246
    Download Restriction: Full text for ScienceDirect subscribers only
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1016/j.agwat.2011.11.019?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Playán, E. & Pérez-Coveta, O. & Marti­nez-Cob, A. & Herrero, J. & Garcia-Navarro, P. & Latorre, B. & Brufau, P. & Garcés, J., 2008. "Overland water and salt flows in a set of rice paddies," Agricultural Water Management, Elsevier, vol. 95(6), pages 645-658, June.
    2. Ben-Gal, Alon & Ityel, Eviatar & Dudley, Lynn & Cohen, Shabtai & Yermiyahu, Uri & Presnov, Eugene & Zigmond, Leah & Shani, Uri, 2008. "Effect of irrigation water salinity on transpiration and on leaching requirements: A case study for bell peppers," Agricultural Water Management, Elsevier, vol. 95(5), pages 587-597, May.
    3. Grieve, C.M. & Poss, J.A. & Grattan, S.R. & Suarez, D.L. & Benes, S.E. & Robinson, P.H., 2004. "Evaluation of salt-tolerant forages for sequential water reuse systems: II. Plant-ion relations," Agricultural Water Management, Elsevier, vol. 70(2), pages 121-135, November.
    4. Bhantana, Parashuram & Lazarovitch, Naftali, 2010. "Evapotranspiration, crop coefficient and growth of two young pomegranate (Punica granatum L.) varieties under salt stress," Agricultural Water Management, Elsevier, vol. 97(5), pages 715-722, May.
    5. Hanson, Blaine & Putnam, Dan & Snyder, Richard, 2007. "Deficit irrigation of alfalfa as a strategy for providing water for water-short areas," Agricultural Water Management, Elsevier, vol. 93(1-2), pages 73-80, October.
    6. Zapata, N. & Martinez-Cob, A., 2002. "Evaluation of the surface renewal method to estimate wheat evapotranspiration," Agricultural Water Management, Elsevier, vol. 55(2), pages 141-157, June.
    7. Suyama, H. & Benes, S.E. & Robinson, P.H. & Grattan, S.R. & Grieve, C.M. & Getachew, G., 2007. "Forage yield and quality under irrigation with saline-sodic drainage water: Greenhouse evaluation," Agricultural Water Management, Elsevier, vol. 88(1-3), pages 159-172, March.
    8. Grattan, S. R. & Grieve, C. M. & Poss, J. A. & Robinson, P. H. & Suarez, D. L. & Benes, S. E., 2004. "Evaluation of salt-tolerant forages for sequential water reuse systems: I. Biomass production," Agricultural Water Management, Elsevier, vol. 70(2), pages 109-120, November.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Díaz, F.J. & Benes, S.E. & Grattan, S.R., 2013. "Field performance of halophytic species under irrigation with saline drainage water in the San Joaquin Valley of California," Agricultural Water Management, Elsevier, vol. 118(C), pages 59-69.

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Jorge F. S. Ferreira & Monica V. Cornacchione & Xuan Liu & Donald L. Suarez, 2015. "Nutrient Composition, Forage Parameters, and Antioxidant Capacity of Alfalfa ( Medicago sativa , L.) in Response to Saline Irrigation Water," Agriculture, MDPI, vol. 5(3), pages 1-21, July.
    2. Díaz, F.J. & Grattan, S.R. & Reyes, J.A. & de la Roza-Delgado, B. & Benes, S.E. & Jiménez, C. & Dorta, M. & Tejedor, M., 2018. "Using saline soil and marginal quality water to produce alfalfa in arid climates," Agricultural Water Management, Elsevier, vol. 199(C), pages 11-21.
    3. Díaz, F.J. & Benes, S.E. & Grattan, S.R., 2013. "Field performance of halophytic species under irrigation with saline drainage water in the San Joaquin Valley of California," Agricultural Water Management, Elsevier, vol. 118(C), pages 59-69.
    4. Máximo F. Alonso & Dennis L. Corwin & James D. Oster & John Maas & Stephen R. Kaffka, 2013. "Modeling a Sustainable Salt Tolerant Grass-Livestock Production System under Saline Conditions in the Western San Joaquin Valley of California," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 5(9), pages 1-19, September.
    5. Shital Poudyal & Valtcho D. Zheljazkov, 2021. "Irrigation with Coalbed Methane Co-Produced Water Reduces Forage Yield and Increases Soil Sodicity However Does Not Impact Forage Quality," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(6), pages 1-11, March.
    6. Saadat, Saeed & Homaee, Mehdi, 2015. "Modeling sorghum response to irrigation water salinity at early growth stage," Agricultural Water Management, Elsevier, vol. 152(C), pages 119-124.
    7. Minhas, P.S. & Ramos, Tiago B. & Ben-Gal, Alon & Pereira, Luis S., 2020. "Coping with salinity in irrigated agriculture: Crop evapotranspiration and water management issues," Agricultural Water Management, Elsevier, vol. 227(C).
    8. Li, Jianshe & Gao, Yanming & Zhang, Xueyan & Tian, Ping & Li, Juan & Tian, Yongqiang, 2019. "Comprehensive comparison of different saline water irrigation strategies for tomato production: Soil properties, plant growth, fruit yield and fruit quality," Agricultural Water Management, Elsevier, vol. 213(C), pages 521-533.
    9. Snyder, R.L. & Pedras, C. & Montazar, A. & Henry, J.M. & Ackley, D., 2015. "Advances in ET-based landscape irrigation management," Agricultural Water Management, Elsevier, vol. 147(C), pages 187-197.
    10. Elgallal, M. & Fletcher, L. & Evans, B., 2016. "Assessment of potential risks associated with chemicals in wastewater used for irrigation in arid and semiarid zones: A review," Agricultural Water Management, Elsevier, vol. 177(C), pages 419-431.
    11. Amninder Singh & Nigel W. T. Quinn & Sharon E. Benes & Florence Cassel, 2020. "Policy-Driven Sustainable Saline Drainage Disposal and Forage Production in the Western San Joaquin Valley of California," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 12(16), pages 1-27, August.
    12. da Fonseca, Adriel Ferreira & Melfi, Adolpho Jose & Monteiro, Francisco Antonio & Montes, Celia Regina & Almeida, Vagner Vidal de & Herpin, Uwe, 2007. "Treated sewage effluent as a source of water and nitrogen for Tifton 85 bermudagrass," Agricultural Water Management, Elsevier, vol. 87(3), pages 328-336, February.
    13. Qadir, M. & Sharma, B.R. & Bruggeman, A. & Choukr-Allah, R. & Karajeh, F., 2007. "Non-conventional water resources and opportunities for water augmentation to achieve food security in water scarce countries," Agricultural Water Management, Elsevier, vol. 87(1), pages 2-22, January.
    14. Grattan, S.R. & Grieve, C.M. & Poss, J.A. & Robinson, P.H. & Suarez, D.L. & Benes, S.E., 2004. "Evaluation of salt-tolerant forages for sequential water reuse systems: III. Potential implications for ruminant mineral nutrition," Agricultural Water Management, Elsevier, vol. 70(2), pages 137-150, November.
    15. Raveh, Eran & Ben-Gal, Alon, 2016. "Irrigation with water containing salts: Evidence from a macro-data national case study in Israel," Agricultural Water Management, Elsevier, vol. 170(C), pages 176-179.
    16. Ayars, James E. & Shouse, Peter & Lesch, Scott M., 2009. "In situ use of groundwater by alfalfa," Agricultural Water Management, Elsevier, vol. 96(11), pages 1579-1586, November.
    17. Rosa, R.D. & Ramos, T.B. & Pereira, L.S., 2016. "The dual Kc approach to assess maize and sweet sorghum transpiration and soil evaporation under saline conditions: Application of the SIMDualKc model," Agricultural Water Management, Elsevier, vol. 177(C), pages 77-94.
    18. J. Jed Brown & Probir Das & Mohammad Al-Saidi, 2018. "Sustainable Agriculture in the Arabian/Persian Gulf Region Utilizing Marginal Water Resources: Making the Best of a Bad Situation," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 10(5), pages 1-16, April.
    19. Intrigliolo, D.S. & Nicolas, E. & Bonet, L. & Ferrer, P. & Alarcón, J.J. & Bartual, J., 2011. "Water relations of field grown Pomegranate trees (Punica granatum) under different drip irrigation regimes," Agricultural Water Management, Elsevier, vol. 98(4), pages 691-696, February.
    20. Poblete-Echeverría, Carlos & Sepúlveda-Reyes, Daniel & Ortega-Farías, Samuel, 2014. "Effect of height and time lag on the estimation of sensible heat flux over a drip-irrigated vineyard using the surface renewal (SR) method across distinct phenological stages," Agricultural Water Management, Elsevier, vol. 141(C), pages 74-83.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:eee:agiwat:v:105:y:2012:i:c:p:1-7. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Catherine Liu (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.elsevier.com/locate/agwat .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.