Category: Irrigation
Soil moisture probes part of Ceres Imaging’s precision irrigation
Now offering soil moisture probes, Ceres will provide installation and recommendations for number and location of probes based on its aerial insights tech.
Closing the gap
Research teams are using imagery and action for smarter almond irrigation and water savings.
How is drought affecting irrigation water for pecans?
The pecan industry is valued at about $400 million, but producers in the Southwest have to find solutions to limited and brackish water to stay in the game.
Almond irrigation effort among recipients of on-farm conservation grants
$25 million for 18 On-Farm Trials projects across the country will help partners work with producers to test and adopt climate-smart systems.
Water-saving method for improving irrigation efficiency is ‘ineffective’
Contrary to popular practice, an international research team has found evidence that water-saving irrigation techniques are worsening water scarcity by not recharging aquifers.
Irrigation for drought, fertility resilience in almond systems awarded
$25 million for 18 On-Farm Trials projects across the country will help partners work with producers to test and adopt climate-smart systems.
Plan to increase flows from San Joaquin River tributaries gets pushback
The notice represents a departure from the state’s earlier willingness to consider voluntary agreements with water districts, which includes aspects other than just flow increases.
Minimized risk from climate extremes sought for Southwest growers
More than two dozen researchers across California, Arizona and New Mexico are looking for ways to improve groundwater and develop management strategies that are adapted to climate change to ensure irrigated agriculture sustainability.
New Mexico pecan producers beating the odds with irrigation moves
Ranchers cull cattle and farmers fallow land as New Mexico suffers from extensive drought like the rest of the West. But the state’s pecan growers – which grow 35% of U.S. pecans – have adapted well in these conditions.
Innovations in Ag Irrigation Technology Demonstration and Showcase scheduled
Fresno State University will showcase the latest innovations in ag irrigation tech at this free event.
Irrigation districts challenge California officials who cut senior water rights
The suit in Fresno County Superior Court claims the state overreached in cutting off supplies to senior water rights holders, effectively closing the surface water faucet for some 4,500 farms in America’s largest agricultural economy.
Block grants to assist California, Oregon producers in Klamath River Basin
USDA is investing $15 million for a new drought pilot to assist those affected. The pilot is part of a broader suite of programs available to producers to help recover losses from drought.
Central Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board order disputed
The California Farm Bureau, seven county farm bureaus and five other ag organizations are petitioning Ag Order 4.0 – a program limiting nitrogen-fertilizer inputs and regulating runoff.
Water transfers for irrigation become hot California commodity
In the land that grows a wide range of commodities, water is its own commodity as the wheeling-and-dealing and negotiation of water transfers and land idling become integral in these drought years.
Efficient, profitable irrigation methods pinpointed in new report
Ceres Imagery has released a publicly available report quantifying the impact of irrigation issues.