The Importance of Furrow Irrigation

Furrow irrigation is a very efficient way, contrary to popular belief, to irrigate. If you've got some damn squirrels, or gophers, and they have tunneled all through your vineyard, and that happens, especially on sandy soil,. When that water goes down, it hits one of those holes, and it never reaches the end - so what do you do? You go get gopher traps,  gopher bombs, you go get cyanide, and you go kill those things... "It's man against nature all the time," he says.