Through the Labor, Efficiency, Automation, and Production (LEAP) project, a transdisciplinary team of researchers, Extension ...

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 ...

A new study examining more than 100 years of agricultural production and weather data in the United States suggests stored water plays an important role in providing resilience to drought. The ...

Irrigation operators globally face a tough reality with perpetual demands for higher performance alongside water competition, limited finances, and declining infrastructure condition. To adjust to the ...

There were 212,714 farms with 53.1 million irrigated acres, which included 81 million acre-feet of water applied in the United States, according to the 2023 Irrigation and Water Management Survey ...

Curt Bennink grew up on a corn, soybean, cow-calf, and hog farrowing farm northeast of Larrabee, Iowa. He earned an Engineering Operations degree from Iowa State University before joining the ...

UAVs can serve as a quick method to detect anomalies in irrigation systems, such as this center pivot spanning hundreds of feet. In collaboration with Michigan State Extension, we found one plugged ...

This USGA Green Section Collection — assembled to supplement the March 6, 2015 and April 1, 2016 issues of the Green Section Record — Provides useful resources pertaining to the management of water on ...