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Action items to improve your irrigation system. Is your irrigation system operating as efficiently as you’d like?

Once harvest is over, most farmers are ready for a well-deserved break.  However, the to-do list still includes fall field work and completing end-of-season maintenance on your irrigation systems. For ...

Instead of spending hours trudging through wheat, barley and potato fields hoping he gets a good idea of what overall field health looks like, drone eye takes a bird’s eye ...

A recyclable "drip tape" irrigation system is being put to the test by Norfolk potato growers who are seeking new solutions to water resource pressures.

The issue of irrigation is becoming relevant in more and more regions due to climate change. Agrarheute explains what you should pay attention to when it comes to technology. The key ...

Traveling irrigation system manufacturer Kifco and CODA Farm Technologies have formed a partnership to bring CODA’s FarmHQ retrofit cellular device and mobile app that provide real-time remote monitoring and control, ...

During the past several years, irrigation equipment manufacturers have been busy reinventing sprinkler systems to serve more as "hired hands" than just an efficient way to water crops. From running ...

Irrigation is a really effective mitigation strategy during drought.

Many of these are center pivot irrigation systems, and their role has grown in importance for agriculture over the past decade or so.

The project is not the first time China has attempted to direct water to Xinjiang and relocate a greater number of Chinese migrants to southern Xinjiang.

Many practitioners consider using irrigation to protect their crops from drought. Getting started with irrigation is not worth it for every farm. In dry summers, sprinkling can save yields. However, getting started is not ...

 Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey delivered his final State of the State to a joint session of the Arizona Legislature. While recapping successes of the administration over the past seven years, Ducey set ...

APH Group will supply storage-, grading and washing installations for three new French fries factories.

5G-NR is set to transform water management as it is a much faster technology. Monitoring infrastructure and irrigation water consumption in agriculture will become commonplace in the coming years. Remote ...

In 1954, Richard Reinke manufacturing began ag and commercial equipment on his family farm in south-central Nebraska. Many of his innovations, including the Electrogator center pivot irrigation system, became standards that ...

Proper season-long soil moisture is the key to maximizing tuber yield, quality and grower return. 

Potatoes are the most important vegetable grown in Israel and are an important crop in the Negev desert region in the southern part of Israel. Being a desert region rainfall ...

In the business economics Binternet accounting of Wageningen UR, the percentage of arable farms that irrigate has increased from 25 percent in 2016 to 45 percent in 2019. The figures ...

Visitors to this year’s Driffield Show will be the first to see the latest enhancements to a revolutionary system that counts and sizes potatoes at the point of harvest or ...

By putting water at the heart of business operations and increasing water self-sufficiency, arable farms become less dependent on the weather. Restrictions on water use are also decreasing. This makes arable farmers ...

Robert Daugherty began Valmont Industries in 1946 in Valley, Neb., with $5,000 and a dream. Of course, it wasn’t known as Valmont then; it was called Valley Manufacturing, and they focused ...

The agriculture industry — including both the potato and irrigation industries — has had its share of challenges to overcome in the last year. Through strength and resiliency, our industries ...

We've been irrigation the potatoes intensively for several weeks now, with increasingly tight shifts

Canada’s potato crop should be larger this year following the pandemic drop

In order to provide the plant with an even more targeted watering, Delphy has set up trials at two companies in which irrigating crops based on data is central.

SupPlant’s technology aims to address the impact of global warming worldwide on smallholder farmers and is designed for the world’s 450 million small growers, as 76 percent of farmers grow ...