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IRRIGATION
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Irrigated Acres by Crop
Summarized for the 16 counties of the Altamaha WPR
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2004 |
2008 |
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2000 |
2004 |
2008 |
| Row Crops |
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| Cotton |
81,100 |
77,000 |
46,200 |
| Peanut |
21,200 |
34,100 |
35,200 |
| Corn |
14,800 |
21,300 |
24,600 |
| Soybean |
9,900 |
13,600 |
22,900 |
| Tobacco |
8,200 |
5,980 |
2,300 |
| Small Grain |
1,140 |
1,700 |
14,400 |
| Hay and Pasture |
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| Pasture |
3,810 |
4,510 |
4,830 |
| Vegetables* |
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| Vegetable Drip |
2,030 |
1,850 |
931 |
| Vegetable Spray |
22,400 |
28,200 |
25,900 |
| Fruit and Nut |
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| Pecan Drip |
5,880 |
7,700 |
8,790 |
| Pecan Sprinkler |
495 |
1,190 |
1,650 |
| Peach |
540 |
106 |
99 |
| Apple |
4 |
8 |
8 |
| Blueberry |
887 |
1,110 |
1,600 |
| Grape |
27 |
32 |
36 |
| Specialty Irrigation |
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| Greenhouse** |
27 |
31 |
17 |
| Other |
0 |
501 |
0 |
| Crops for Landscapes |
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| Sod Production |
2,540 |
2,380 |
3,400 |
| Nursery Plants** |
480 |
673 |
560 |
| Non-Agriculural Areas |
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| Golf & Athletic |
980 |
944 |
744 |
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| Total per Year |
176,500 |
202,800 |
194,300 |
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* Vegetables irrigated by drip under plastic mulch include tomato, peppers, eggplant, cabbage, cauliflower, broccoli and sometimes melons & various greens.
Vegetables irrigated by overhead sprinkler include sweet corn, green beans, lima bean, Southern and English pea, watermelons, cantelope, onions, carrots, winter
and summer squash, and cucumbers. Many vegetables are double cropped (a Spring and Fall crop in the same year).
** May include tree seedlings for the forestry industry
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Source:
University of Georgia Cooperative Extension Service 2000, 2004, and 2008 Irrigation Surveys. Irrigation Surveys
are an approximately quadrennial survey prepared from county level data assembled by Agricultural
Agents for their respective counties. More information on the statewide survey can be found here.
Last
Updated on 1/23/2009 by Annie Horak, Shane Conger and Jim Hook
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