Breaking It and Making It Better: Agricultural Irrigation Efficiency

摘要

“IF IT ISN’T BROKE, BREAK IT AND MAKE IT BETTER.” This was one of my first introductions to the culture at Cherrylake Inc. (See Figure 1) Situated in the rolling hills of Groveland, Florida, northwest of Orlando and Disney World, lies 1,100 acres of containerized trees, shrubs, palms and citrus in neat rows as far as the eye can see. Products include trees such as live oak, elms, maples and magnolia, various shrubs, including podocarpus, wax myrtle and viburnum and citrus varieties, including navels, grapefruit and tangerines. Customers are wholesale commercial landscape contractors, theme parks and PGA golf courses.