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Re:Scientists cook up new recipes for taking salt out of sea... by riffraff on Sunday August 04, 2019 @12:32PM (#20607511)
Is drip-based watering used at scale?
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Re:Scientists cook up new recipes for taking salt out of sea... by mythrwy on Sunday August 04, 2019 @02:48PM (#20608464)
It is.

t-tape for instance is widely used commercially for irrigation of high value horticultural crops like strawberries, tomatoes, peppers etc.

also drip systems (with individual emitters, not t-tape) are used commercially in many tree crops (citrus etc).

https://rivulis.com/product/drip-tapes-drip-lines/t-tape-dri...

However for agronomic crops (like corn, wheat, soybeans, alfalfa etc), which occur in mass plantings I'm not aware of any drip applications. Certainly at minimum if drip is used for these crops, it is extremely rare and probably not practical.

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Re:Scientists cook up new recipes for taking salt out of sea... by BubRoss on Sunday August 04, 2019 @12:35PM (#20607538)
At what scale?
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Re:Scientists cook up new recipes for taking salt out of sea... by riffraff on Sunday August 04, 2019 @12:40PM (#20607576)
Large commercial monocultures, rather than personal vegetable gardens
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Re:Scientists cook up new recipes for taking salt out of sea... by JosephHatfield on Sunday August 04, 2019 @01:37PM (#20607968)
Drip irrigation is heavily relied on by commercial farms in Israel
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