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Irrigation

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July marks the start of Smart Irrigation Month.
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Small-scale and urban farms across Ohio and the Great Lakes region are increasingly using high tunnels to extend the growing season and improve crop production.
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In the Great Plains and parts of the Midwest, drought doesn’t always arrive as a dramatic headline.
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Producers across multiple regions of the U.S. are heading into a growing season defined by drought conditions, forcing many farmers and ranchers to rethink forage...
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Drought in the Western United States is often talked about in terms of weather – snowpack, rainfall, reservoir levels.
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Suat Irmak, professor and head of Penn State’s Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, received the 2026 Royce J. Tipton Award from the American Society...
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Nationwide, thousands of students are preparing to start their careers after high school or after college graduation.
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At Kansas State University (K-State), researchers are testing different technologies to help producers make irrigation decisions as water availability becomes less predictable.
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New research from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln is giving producers a way to reduce water usage while maintaining, or even improving, profitability.
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The Daugherty Water for Food Global Institute (DWFI) announced that its researchers recently published results from “Irrigated agriculture in the United States: Current status and future...