Soil health within transitions from irrigation to limited irrigation and dryland management

The decline in groundwater supply the Texas High Plains is forcing some growers to convert center-pivot irrigated cropland dryland production. Transitioning toward reduced water input can lead declines soil health. We assessed short-term changes health indicators two transition scenarios: (a) from high irrigation method low (center pivot subsurface drip) and (b) dryland), comparison continuous management. monitored chemical biological four fields for each scenario three pivot-irrigated fields. There were content, potassium (K), sodium (Na), organic carbon with dryland. Severe drought final year revealed amounts of multi-enzyme activities, total ester-linked fatty acid methyl ester (EL-FAME), fungi. water-input management this environment complicates efforts maintain microbial components Longer-term comparisons are needed detect slow on producers’