Plants need water, and people aren’t always around to provide it. I realized this fact when a wildfire engulfed my rural ...

Surface irrigation remains a vital agricultural practice, combining tradition with modern analytical methods to address the global challenges of water scarcity and efficient water use. Recent ...

LOS BANOS Although underground irrigation is still a common way to water crops and fields, some farmers and landowners are moving to use surface irrigation amid one of the worst droughts in state ...

This week, the question comes from yours truly (i.e., Dr. Marisa Thompson, regular writer of this column). I’ve heard about subsurface drip as an improved way to irrigate turfgrass, so I invited NMSU ...

Surface irrigation techniques can improve developing crop field layouts and efficient surface irrigation methods such as bed planting technology which helps save water to increase cropping intensity.

TIFTON — Drip irrigation systems have long helped Georgia vegetable farmers grow high yielding crops. A University of Georgia Cooperative Extension expert says sub-surface drip irrigation can help ...

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 ...

DESPITE advancement in irrigation technologies, vast areas are still lying barren due to insufficient rainfall and saline groundwater. High-tech irrigation methods, such as sprinkler and drip, no ...