Crop irrigation — watering the plants that make our food — is one of the most intensive uses of water in the world. This year, at the United Nations 2023 Water Conference, the biggest water conference ...

Harold Dueck sees cover crops as a necessity in his cotton fields to protect the fragile cotton seedlings from the harsh and unpredictable west Texas winds. But in the dry climate of Gaines County, he ...

Efficient water usage in agriculture is crucial for sustaining a growing human population. A better understanding of the systems that support agriculture, farmers and farmlands allows for food ...

Alex Paraskevas of SEDCOR addresses attendees at a talk April 4 in Independence, Ore., about the irrigation challenges facing hazelnut growers in the Willamette Valley. Definitive answers are still in ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Researchers with the Oregon State University College of Engineering are working to develop a technology that aims to make agriculture more economically and environmentally ...

With threats of water scarcity complicating the need to feed a growing global population, it is more important than ever to get crop irrigation right. Overwatering can deplete local water supplies and ...

LOGAN, Utah — Drip irrigation is a highly efficient irrigation method well suited to many fruit and vegetable row crops. Drip tubing or tape discharges water to the soil through emitters positioned ...

An irrigation pivot is seen in a demonstration Thursday at a cornfield farmed by Rob Sladek in Conesville. Sladek can remotely turn the system on and off and irrigates about 10 percent of his crops.

Current snowpack in the headwaters of the North Platte River Basin continues to be below average. Wyoming reservoir water ...

CLEAR LAKE, Minn. — “Without irrigation, it would have been nothing,” Ryan Peterson says of his 2023 edible bean crop. Peterson grows dark red kidney beans and black beans near Clear Lake, east of St.