LOS BANOS Although underground irrigation is still a common way to water crops and fields, some farmers and landowners are moving to use surface irrigation amid one of the worst droughts in state ...

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 ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... GRAND JUNCTION, Colo.—In the back of almost every farm truck you are likely to find a pair of muddy irrigating boots. Stepping in the mud to shovel and ...

TAYLOR, Utah — The slow, steady drip of water hits right where the plant is. "You can see under here, it’s just a drip, drip, drip," farmer Matt Peterson said, picking up a line running under a row of ...

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 ...

John Cardoza, a project manager with Sustainable Conservation, talks about the use of drip irrigation in dairy feed crops during a tour of DeJager Farms, southeast of Merced, Calif., on Wednesday, Aug ...

Water trickles out of a tiny black plastic tube and flows onto a spot near a young banana plant. The set-up looks simple, but it works with precision. The tube delivers just the right amount of water, ...

Democratic governments are, by their nature, slow-moving creatures — and that’s the way it should be. Social stability generally requires that change be evolutionary, not revolutionary, lest the ...

KABUL (Pajhwok): Experts and experienced farmers say the drip irrigation system should be promoted to irrigate large areas with minimal water, and they urge the government and aid agencies to raise ...

What if farmers could use half the water than they are now without sacrificing crop yield? Arizona would be a different place. There are roughly 946,000 acres of farmland in the state, according to ...

The debate rages whether we should rip out our grass or fill in pools to save water. But agriculture used 74 percent of Arizona’s water in 2017. If farmers found a way to save just 5 percent of that ...

At De Jager Farms near Merced, drip irrigation is tested Wednesday on plots of corn to be fed to dairy cattle. The project involves NetafimUSA, which makes drip irrigation supplies and has a Fresno ...