For Trevor Hardy of Brookdale Fruit Farm, flexible irrigation design is the key to managing unpredictable weather, limited ...
The kinetic energy that irrigation water produces as it surges through pressurized pipe on the Ute Mountain Farm and Ranch Enterprise is wasted as it is reduced to operate the center-pivot sprinkler ...
BEND, Ore. — What started as a conflict between farms and frogs in Central Oregon has resulted in an extensive effort to modernize the region’s aging irrigation systems. Approximately 100 people ...
Driving through southern Delaware farmland, have you ever wondered about those strange looking mechanical devices on wheels that populate many fields? The reason for all that apparatus is tied to some ...
A woman checks on set drip irrigation pipes at her farm in Kitgum When buying drip lines, consider quality, durability and the flow rate of water. Photo by Lominda Afedraru The choice of an irrigation ...
SEVENTY per cent of the fresh water resources are being used for agricultural production while the rest for drinking, municipal, industrial uses etc. The increasing demand for food and fibre calls for ...
A Lincolnshire-based engineering firm has developed a novel solution for routing irrigation pipe across busy roadways without halting traffic. JH and W Skinns was enlisted by a local farmer to build a ...
It is important for farmers to adopt irrigation methods by watering their crops during times of dry spell instead of relying on unreliable rainfall. This means farmers can tailor the amount of water ...
When the earth moves, it can have a large financial impact. That’s what happened in January of 2016, when a rockslide heavily damaged the main two-metre-diametre irrigation water pipe that serves ...