Evaluating a nonionic surfactant as a tool to improve water availability in irrigated cotton.

The article discusses a study which evaluates the impact of nonionic surfactant on cotton production on a loamy sand in the coastal plain region of Georgia. The experiment was composed of on-site rainfall simulation and agronomic cotton field trials. Rainfall simulation discovered that the addition of surfactant increased runoff and decreased infiltration. It also found that agronomic field trials showed that crop yields were not different between surfactant-treated and untreated plots.