Over the past 50 years, several technologies have been developed to decrease on-farm irrigation losses. Precision land-leveling uses laser-guided equipment to level the field so that water will flow ...

The High Plains water crisis is no longer a “slow-motion” crisis anymore. Irrigation accounts for 83% of all water usage in Kansas. The Kansas Water Plan Implementation document, developed more than a ...

Tech experts say generative AI will revolutionize farm operations from spreadsheet management to labor optimization.

Irrigation for agriculture is the largest use of fresh water around the globe, but precise records and maps of when and where water is applied by farmers are difficult to locate. Now a team of ...

CAVALIER, N.D. -- Robert Vivatson smiles at the memory of his initial foray into irrigation in the mid 1990s. "We had a traveling gun (wheeled cart with attached sprinkler) and 40 acres of irrigated ...

Deep in his almond grove, Madera County almond farmer Tom Rogers reviews his irrigation data on his tablet, next to a device measuring temperature and humidity. A soil moisture sensor, seen near ...

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Vineyards and orchards prepare as irrigation season approaches amid dry winter concerns.

This irrigation supply company in Blackfoot, Idaho was incorporated in 1952. “Over the years we’ve put in quite a few gravity systems,” says Karl Slayton, the president of Agricultural Services.

Presenting the Punjab Budget 2026-27 in the Vidhan Sabha, Finance Minister Harpal Cheema made a bold claim of expanding canal irrigation to nearly seven million acres (70 lakh acres) by the end of ...

Mac McKee receives funding from various Federal sources that support academic research institutions. These include USDA, NASA, and water and natural resources management agencies in the State of Utah.