2017 has been a very wet year.
Everyone said that it was an unusually wet year.
Soil health is never more important, nor more obvious, than in a very wet year.
We know, however, that one wet year is highly unlikely to end water shortages.
In 1969, half our backyard was washed away from an atmospheric river during a wet year.
We found that a dry year preceded by a wet year resulted in the highest RUE, and conversely, a wet year preceded by a dry year resulted in the lowest RUE.
Three test years, a dry year, a wet year, and an extreme year, were considered in the evaluation.
This pattern explains why we saw some unexpected dominance interactions this season, as it was indeed a very wet year.
The 2017 data are consistent with 2013, another extremely wet year with 20 inches of rainfall between May and August.
Mr. Henson, the hydrologist, favors three years of testing: a dry year, a wet year and a normal one.
NO3-N showed a strong dilution pattern during several autumn storms during an extremely wet year, indicating limited N sources for flushing from the catchment.
