What is Colorado Master Irrigator?
Colorado Master Irrigator is an intensive, 4-day, 32-hour educational course for Republican River Basin irrigators.
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The Colorado Master Irrigator program is focused on offering advanced training in conservation-oriented, irrigation management practices for farmers and farm managers. Area producers from the Republican River Basin have led the curriculum development of this program.
Topic experts including University Extension specialists will serve as instructors for this course. The in-depth and interactive class format will encourage peer-to-peer exchange among participants and instructors. The goal of Colorado Master Irrigator is for producers to graduate from program equipped with examples and insights on how they might potentially increase or maintain profitability by implementing different tools and strategies on their operations to improve: |
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Colorado Master Irrigator is about helping us farmers figure out how we can get the perfect amount of water on our crops.
- Brian Lengel, Burlington-area producer and member, Colorado Master Irrigator program advisory committee
2019 Program schedule |
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Session 1 - Wednesday, February 12th
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Registration for Master Irrigator now open!
Be part of the first-ever Colorado Master Irrigator program class! Visit our "how to register" page for more details. CO Master Irrigator program awarded Colorado Water Plan grant!
On November 20, 2019, Colorado Master Irrigator was awarded a Water Plan grant of more than $100,000 from the Colorado Water Conservation Board! This funding will make it possible for Colorado Master Irrigator to offer participation stipends to program graduates who complete all 32 hours of the course and who agree to stay in touch with program staff to share their approach and progress to integrating water management strategies and tools on their farms. Program graduates will be offered opportunities to stretch those dollars further through discounts and cost share on various tools and technologies made available companies that have signed on to be Colorado Master Irrigator partners and sponsors. |