Interesting. Here we call the metal thing checks and the dirt ridge a berm. But maybe the big farms use different terms here too.

@@savingmiller We we’re definitely not a big farm. Lol. It was just a small 5 acre ranch. The dirt ridges themselves we called borders and used a border disc to make them, the area between the borders was the check, where the water came out of the ditch was called a takeout. We didn’t really have a special name for anything that would block the flow of water in the ditch. It just kind of depended on what was blocking the water. In some spots there was a gate/valve, and other areas you just slide boards into a concrete slot. But we never really backed up the water in our private ditch that flowed into the pasture, any flow control devices were in the irrigation districts ditches that supplied us. But we usually ended up doing their job for them most of the time.

lol. It does work though.

Actually, everything we water has deep root systems. We don't have short term crops. Also, our water is definitely regulated and measured. This is not a free for all.

@@savingmiller word.