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Two projects are receiving support from the USDA 2025 Specialty Crop Block Grant Program. Two interdisciplinary research ...

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 ...

BOW — Skagit County farm technology startup CODA Farm Technologies announced Monday a partnership with Midwest irrigation system manufacturer Kifco. CODA’s Farm HQ is a water-saving irrigation device ...

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 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 ...

REC Solar and Ventura Energy have completed a 1.73-MW solar project at Farmers Irrigation Company’s Santa Paula site. Two ...

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 ...

After two dry winters, the April 1 snowpack measurement, which is typically the deepest and highest in water concentration, is far below average at 59% according to the Department of Water Resources.