Crop irrigation — watering the plants that make our food — is one of the most intensive uses of water in the world. This year, at the United Nations 2023 Water Conference, the biggest water conference ...

Sustainable water, energy and food (WEF) supplies are the bedrock upon which human society depends. Solar-driven interfacial ...

Texas agriculture producers who rely on irrigation have a new tool created by Texas A&M AgriLife irrigation specialists to help them optimize water use as their crops progress through the growing ...

With robots doing everything from milking cows to crop dusting, farming has come a long way since they days of plodding along behind a horse and plow. Irrigation practices are also benefiting from ...

ATLANTA — If summers seem cooler and wetter in parts of the Midwest in recent years, you can thank — or blame — farmers, two new studies contend. While average global temperatures rose about 0.74 ...

With threats of water scarcity complicating the need to feed a growing global population, it is more important than ever to get crop irrigation right. Overwatering can deplete local water supplies and ...

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.