irrigation
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.
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Contrary to popular practice, an international research team has found evidence that water-saving irrigation techniques are worsening water scarcity by not recharging aquifers.
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$25 million for 18 On-Farm Trials projects across the country will help partners work with producers to test and adopt climate-smart systems.
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California Department of Food and Agriculture Fertilizer Research funded $4.14 million in grants, including $3 million for nitrogen and irrigation training, and $1.14 million for five other projects to improve management practices.
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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.
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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.
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Fresno State University will showcase the latest innovations in ag irrigation tech at this free event.
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This tech firm is changing irrigation in large and small ways by doing more with less.
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Unless growers are designing their irrigation systems well and diligently maintaining them, how efficient a system can be is very different from how efficient a system actually is.
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