We are about to run water through our ditch system to flood irrigate the hay field.
What I have learnt in the last two years is that if you have a system like this then you must keep the ditches open and be constantly redirecting water in order to get the whole field wet.



This year I sprayed the ditches with Roundup, while they were dry, and this has really stopped the build of vegetation which I had last year and which slowed down the water flow considerably. We don't like using herbicides but in this instance there is little alternative and of course the alpacas do not have access to the hay field.


Adrian Stewart