CLOVERDALE — On a hot afternoon in early September, Tygh Redfield stood on the edge of his hay field and surveyed the landscape. In the distance, a massive metal pivot slowly circled the ground, ...

Farmers near Meeker, in northwestern Colorado, have been diverting water from the White River to flood their fields for irrigation for more than 100 years. Using a series of irrigation ditches, they ...

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 ...

Irrigation is essential for stabilizing yields in the High Plains as rainfall variability challenges farmers. Rainfall ranges from 10 inches in eastern Colorado and western Kansas to 60 inches in the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. May 24—The Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District has been preventing floods, providing drainage and releasing irrigation waters ...

High-tech watering gear keeps breaking down while clay pots just keep working.

Seven projects focused on improving irrigation systems in Oregon recently won nearly $6.7 million in grants from two funds overseen by state water regulators. Four of the projects received about $2.4 ...

Cotton fields under drip irrigation in Xinjiang yield a bumper harvest. [Photo/Lin Ping] "We organized an online-offline ...