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<br />{1 <br /> <br />000"/3 <br /> <br />ARKANSAS VALLEY JOURNAL - SECT~~N. B - APRIL 4, 1996- PAGE3 <br />~ _....- <br /> <br />Salinity. management workshop planned <br /> <br />PUEBLO - Dr. Jim Rhoo.des. current now wIthin the" soll offJce/Colorado Salinity <br />director of the U.S. So.lInlly profile. ThIs mapping 1s done In Dlo.gnosls. Group. The workshop <br />Lnborntory of Riverside. Cnllf.. comblnnllon wllh a Global and field days are being funded <br />nnd nn InLernntlonnlly Imown Positioning System. In pnrt by n Cooperntlve <br />snllnlty expert will spenk Aprll The. workshop Is being Exlenslon grnnt from thc <br />16 here. Rhondcs wlll be sponsored by Colomdo SUlte Colorndo Wnter Conservation <br />fentured nt n Snllnlly UnIversity Cooperative Bonrd. <br />Mnnngemenl Workshop nt 7:30 Extension. the CSU-Arknnsns For morc Informntion, cnll (719) <br />p.m. In the Pueblo CounLy High Vnlley Resenrch Center nnd the 254-7608, (719) 583-6566, (719) <br />Schoolllbr<U)'. NRCS-Ln Junta nren 384-5408 or (719) 543-8384. <br />"This Js an exceptional <br />opportunity for farmers In the <br />Arkansas Valley urea Lo learn <br />beller methods of mnnnglng <br />their snIt problems: snld Jim <br />Vnlllnnt. regronnl Irrlgntlon <br />speclnllst for Colorado SUlte <br />University Cooperative <br />Extension. <br />Rhondes and his sallnlty team <br />will. be presenllng this workshop <br />as well as doing rapid salfnlty <br />mapping during the dny at the <br />Stonewall Spring Farm west of <br />Nyberg Road Just south of <br />Hlghwny 50 nbout 12 mlles easl <br />of Pueblo, This rnpld sallnlty <br />mapping will be done using two <br />pieces of equipment developed <br />by Rhoades nnd his team. <br />The wenner-array Is II tractor- <br />mounted chisel with four <br />electrode sensors tho.t measures <br />and logs soll electrical <br />conducllvlty 'on-the-go' whlle In <br />the soil. The -asSAuLT- unit Is <br />mounted on a high c1eo.rance <br />tractor and measures saUnlly <br />using sensors above the soli <br />producing an eleclromagnellc <br /> <br />.. <br />