* 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

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