RIVERDALE, Calif. — Last year, the federal government gave farmer Dan Errotabere half of the water it had awarded him the previous year to cultivate his 5,200 acres. But he still managed to reap a ...

I love drip irrigation. I get such satisfaction from seeing the orderly lines of drip tubing in my gardens, emitting precisely measured drops of water onto plant roots. These commonplace scenes make ...

TONOPAH, AZ — With a water shortage already an issue in Arizona, the Central Arizona Project (CAP) is looking for new ways to conserve water for farming, and it may have found one. CAP and others are ...

PASCO, Wash. — On a day in May, Benjamin Bauman headed to a farm that had removed old drip tape from 1,000 acres of farmland. It was laying in piles on the farm. By removing and recycling the drip ...

A recent test has shown that drip irrigation is more efficient than furrow irrigation when growing sugar beets. In California, sugar beets are mostly grown only in the low-desert region of the ...

drip irrigation is a modern and well-developed system for conserving water and reducing the cost of fertilisers, energy, labour and pesticides. Before this system of irrigation, sprinkler was the most ...

DRIP irrigation is a method of irrigating row crops and it helps efficient utilisation of water that is a key input for agriculture. Given poor efficiency of our canal system because of sizable water ...

If you’re like me, you, too, are lying awake at night wondering which is better, drip tape or tubular irrigation. A friend sent me a helpful primer the other morning. Now I can go back to wondering if ...

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WHAT: Discussion of alternative irrigation methods conducted by Mike Hamman, retired New Mexico state engineer and former chief engineer and chief executive officer of the Middle Rio Grande ...