If you live in Texas, then you are likely well acquainted with the state’s often harsh climate. The hot, dry conditions combined with unpredictable rainfall and drought often leads to declining ...

Picture a farm or garden, and you're likely to imagine crops planted in rows. Run water between the rows and you have furrow irrigation, one of humanity's oldest methods used to grow food. It's still ...

Improving irrigation strategies can save your farm time, water and money. Learn from farmers who went back to school to learn ...

Irrigation from river water supports 25% of global food production. The first complex societies arose in river valleys – from the Nile to the Indus to the Yangtze to the Tigris and Euphrates. Why did ...

The purpose of irrigation systems is obvious: Plants need water, and people aren’t always around to provide it. I realized this fact when a wildfire engulfed my rural California neighborhood in August ...

The U.S. has nearly as many miles of irrigation canals as it does highways. The canals, which provide water for millions of ...

High-tech watering gear keeps breaking down while clay pots just keep working.

Of all the ways that humans consume water, there is no practice that uses more water than irrigation, which accounts for more than 90% of humanity’s water consumption. While irrigation is necessary to ...

Unlike large-acreage government irrigation schemes, small-scale irrigation is typically farmer led. Farmers decide what technologies to use to extract water, be it manual lifting or solar water pumps.

Thousands of hectares of communal land set aside for smallholder farmers’ use in South Africa are lying fallow because of ...