In an effort to increase water quantity and quality across central Minnesota, a cost-share program is offering producers ...

Irrigation is a common agricultural/horticultural practice that uses a number of methods to add water to the soil in times of insufficient rain. Choosing the ...

The sight is not uncommon in California: water moving slowly across farm fields, in broad sheets or through a grid of ditches, propelled only by the pull of gravity. Flood irrigation is a tried and ...

Farmer James Nyamai states that drip irrigation has helped in growing at his farm Machakos county on Wednesday, January 21st, 2015. The chicken farm contains 2,043 chicks.[PHOTO: ANGELA MAINA/STANDARD ...

An irrigation method uses 50 percent less water than traditional systems to grow potatoes – an important finding for the $131 million-a-year Florida crop. University of Florida Institute of Food and ...

A new study should provide vineyard managers new techniques for producing healthy and long-lasting grape crops. After extensive trials, data indicated that soil sampling within a 20- to 40-centimeter ...

AJ Carrillo farms 18 acres outside of Hotchkiss, Colorado, in the high desert of the Western Slope about an hour southeast of Grand Junction. When he irrigates his peach orchard, water gushes from big ...