Two projects are receiving support from the USDA 2025 Specialty Crop Block Grant Program. Two interdisciplinary research teams at University of California, Santa Cruz, will develop agricultural ...

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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 ...

This system can be connected via a Siemens frequency converter to existing water pumps. Existing irrigation systems can therefore easily be converted to use a significantly more efficient and ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture said last week that farm-related irrigation is declining and a corresponding decline in the number of farms in Arkansas and nationwide lends weight to the agency's ...

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 ...

Toro Co., a manufacturer of drip irrigation systems in addition to lawn mowers and snow throwers, has partnered with the recycling firm Revolution Plastics to reclaim plastic products from farm fields ...

The EU is taking new measures to reduce the risk of shortages of water for irrigating crops. The Council today agreed its position (general approach) on a regulation which facilitates the use of urban ...