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Education is a combination of acquiring knowledge and experience. While school is a great place to gather those, there are many other opportunities for picking up industry education. Photo: Charles Abee
great place to start acquiring knowledge and there are a great number of programs across this country that will provide training in irrigation scheduling to system design and maintenance both in the agriculture and landscape worlds.
Unfortunately, your life may not work on a quarter or semester system if you are a working professional. There are many other opportunities both through the Irrigation Association and outside to acquire this knowledge, including short courses at community colleges, cooperative extension, the Irrigation Training and Research Center at Cal Poly
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or Center for Irrigation Technology at Fresno State, dealer and manufacturer trainings and webinars, just to name a few. The Irrigation Association hosts a great number of IA University classes during the Irrigation Show and Education week each year along with webinars throughout the year. Each of these opportunities will allow you to pick specific areas you may want to develop. I have had the pleasure of taking classes in irrigation system design, ag water management, pumps, center pivot design and irrigation system wiring. These classes provided me with a broad base of technical knowledge and some hands-on
experiences to better understand specific concepts.
Education options
You may be wondering how to get education if you can’t attend a semester- long class. My experience might help provide a few options, as I feel I have become a professional in seeking out irrigation education. Before I taught at College of Sequoias, I was a high school agriculture teacher and FFA advisor. I had enough irrigation knowledge to teach my students at the high school level, but when I moved into college I knew
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