What is the best type of irrigation? If you ask three different people you may well get three different answers. But I expect a lot of you are wondering about this as you look at your water bills and ...

For Trevor Hardy of Brookdale Fruit Farm, flexible irrigation design is the key to managing unpredictable weather, limited ...

Solving these problems has gained increasing urgency, said Julie O’Shea, executive director of the Farmer’s Conservation Alliance, a nonprofit that helps irrigation districts work to modernize their ...

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.

Of all the ways that humans consume water, there is no practice that uses more water than irrigation, which accounts for more than 90% of humanity’s water consumption. While irrigation is necessary to ...

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