A new study from South Dakota State University found that the expansion of the U.S. ethanol industry significantly increased farmland values across the Midwest.

USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) has opened its June Agricultural Survey.

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 strategies, irrigation plans and long-term operational resilience.

Drought in the Western United States is often talked about in terms of weather – snowpack, rainfall, reservoir levels.

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 of Civil Engineers during the World Environmental and Water Resources Congress in Mobile, Alabama.

California officials announced the completion of Project Nexus.

Nationwide, thousands of students are preparing to start their careers after high school or after college graduation.

At Kansas State University (K-State), researchers are testing different technologies to help producers make irrigation decisions as water availability becomes less predictable.

New research from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln is giving producers a way to reduce water usage while maintaining, or even improving, profitability.

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 frontiers” in Agricultural Water Management.

Peak irrigation season is underway and widespread drought conditions across multiple regions of the U.S. are prompting new restrictions on outdoor water use while also unlocking federal relief for agricultural producers. 

Irrigation is becoming a limiting factor, not just a management decision, for growers across parts of the U.S., and early-season shortages are forcing difficult tradeoffs.