The Midwest Plan Service has just published a resource that those of you who work with irrigators have been seeking for a long time. The new MWPS-30 "Sprinkler Irrigation Systems" handbook is probably the first irrigation handbook ever written specifically for the supplemental irrigation practices of the north-central region. The book deals solely with sprinkler irrigation and associated water supplies. It was written by a group of engineers in the Plan Service region who work almost totally with sprinkler irrigation. Sections of the book include:

• Planning Irrigation Systems

• System Design

• Water Sources

• Sprinkler Systems

• Sprinkler Characteristics

• Sprinkler Selection and Management

• Pumps, Piping and Power Units

• Chemigation

• Sprinkler Application of Effluent

• Design Examples.

The book was written to fill the irrigation information needs of producers, students, irrigation advisors, and equipment dealers. Those of you who work with irrigators will find it a very useful reference that you will want to recommend to your irrigators. The book sells for $20.00 and is available from Nancy Aitcheson, Plan Service Secretary, Agricultural Engineering Department, Farrall Hall, MSU, East Lansing, 48824, 517-353-3297. If your office works with irrigators or receives questions about field crop irrigation, request a no-cost office copy from Nancy.

Ted Loudon