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 ...

Two projects are receiving support from the USDA 2025 Specialty Crop Block Grant Program. Two interdisciplinary research teams at University of California, Santa Cruz, will develop agricultural ...

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

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 ...

Texas agriculture producers who rely on irrigation have a new tool created by Texas A&M AgriLife irrigation specialists to help them optimize water use as their crops progress through the growing ...

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 ...

This story was originally published by Grist with the headline Did the USDA just forget about $400M in drought aid for farmers? on Feb 23, 2026.

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 ...

The water spills and it spills, and nobody’s getting any use out of it.” Nearly two years ago, the irrigation district was invited to apply to a new non-competitive grant program that the US ...

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.