Talk:Dryland farming

Dust Storms

While dryland farming has an impact on dust storms and that information needs to be included in the article, I don't believe it is of such prominence that a picture of a dust storm from space should be utilized to illustrate what the farming technique is. If someone has a suitable picture of a dryland farm or dryland farming it would be more suitable here. In the meanwhile I am going to fix some of the other dust-storm-edit issues which are outstanding - namely that farmers spread loose soil on the ground to preserve moisture. This simply isn't feasible - adding only 1 inch of soil per acre on a 500 acre farm would require 5600 dump truck loads of soil! (12 cu. yd standard truck) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 198.232.211.130 (talk) 20:10, 10 November 2009 (UTC)

Loose soil used as a mulch is produced mechanically by breaking up the surface of the existing soil. Lumpy and mixed with stalks from the preceding years crop it doesn not easily erode. A suitable picture might show corn stalks remaining in the field catching moisture and retarding erosion. User:Fred Bauder Talk 02:09, 7 July 2011 (UTC)

Capital

The passage in the text, which was in the one of the earliestl versions of this article which I wrote, " In marginal regions, a farmer should be financially able to survive occasional crop failures, perhaps for several years in succession." is derived from information from my grandfather, Fred Bauder, who was a dryland farmer. He said, "You need to be able to survive four crop failures in a row". User:Fred Bauder Talk 02:01, 7 July 2011 (UTC)

Should we combine articles?

Arid-zone agriculture, Dryland farming, and Desert farming all refer to farming in conditions that receive approximately ten inches or 250 mm or less precipitation annually. This site [1] claims arid zones are up to 350 mm and semi-arid is 700 mm.

• Option 1.
  • Combine all three articles. Dryland farming gets almost 8,000 views a month [2], while Arid-zone agriculture gets only about 500 [3] and Desert farming gets about 1,500 [4]. It seems that Dryland farming is the most commonly used term for this idea, so I recommend combing the other articles into it.
• Option 2.
  • Only combine Desert farming and Arid-zone agriculture because these only refer to arid or desert farming, but Dryland farming can also refer to semi-arid conditions.
• Option 3.
  • Keep the articles separate.

Waters.Justin (talk) 21:25, 29 April 2015 (UTC)

There's also dryfarming, which I interpret to be growing in areas that have more than twenty inches of rain, but that rain is concentrated in the winter, and there is little to no rain all summer. Am I right that there's nothing specifically addressing this on Wikipedia right now? ChickenFreak (talk) 07:37, 7 May 2015 (UTC)

But re the suggestion, I would favor combining them all, and throwing dryfarming into the mix. ChickenFreak (talk) 06:44, 9 May 2015 (UTC)

Reduce focus on region? Or split? Or... something?

(I was ChickenFreak. I lost track of that account.)

To me, "dryfarming" is about farming or vegetable gardening with little to no artificial irrigation. It has the added implication that there is limited natural rainfall during at least part of the growing season. But the article's strong focus on specific regions, "drylands", etc., means that dryfarming as I understand it doesn't fit into this article. However, the fact that the Early Girl tomato article (the best-known commercial dryfarmed crop) points to this article means that someone has decided that this article is the proper home for dryfarming as I understand it.

So how would the article be reorganized to support a wider variety of "growing food without plentiful water" topics? I'll probably gather my resources and just add a new section at some point, and maybe add a few "or" statements in the introduction of the article. But I feel that some restructuring of the rest of the article is called for. RamblingChicken (talk) 02:21, 22 April 2016 (UTC)

OK, I'm starting to do some tweaking on the premise that since dry farming is redirected here, this article should reflect dry farming. RamblingChicken (talk) 05:43, 28 April 2016 (UTC)

Above, when I was ChickenFreak, I recommended combining them all. What was I thinking? They should be split, not combined. Dryland farming and dry farming are not the same thing; I've been splitting them section by section as I see that they are different.RamblingChicken (talk) 06:47, 28 April 2016 (UTC)

Strange edit

At the end of Features, Locations: “Another definition of dry farming is - It is adopted in scanty rainfall areas.Such types of crop are grown which require less irrigation facilities.” (18-08-2019, 10:59.) Seems tentative, unfinished. Anyway, dry farming is another part of the page. Undone. --Dominique Meeùs (talk) 18:44, 17 November 2019 (UTC)

Unsourced copy-paste at the end of "Crops"

This text: "Everyone knows that plants need water, soil, oxygen and sunlight in order to grow strong and healthy, but what happens when water is scarce? Modern farming solutions to this problem include irrigation systems that can direct water to rows of crops in huge fields, but some farmers believe that a return to dry farming is the solution. What Is Involved In A Dry Farming Operation? Dry Farming is a natural technique that utilizes rainwater and water leached from the ground in dry environments. Groundwater supply is often the result of melted snow and ice in climates that experience high precipitation in the winter and dry heat in the summer. Water from nearby watershed sources can also be used in dry farming, and some believe that the use of dry farms could solve not only food shortage challenges in small communities but also climate change concerns."

Appears to have been sourced from here without attribution: https://www.magoda.com/agriculture/what-is-dry-farming/ 47.137.190.103 (talk) 07:08, 18 February 2023 (UTC)

Also the style is not appropriate for this page. Brunonande (talk) 18:36, 1 May 2023 (UTC)