Three years ago when drought dried up her canal and left her fields barren, Courtney Schuur took an unusual step to save her cattle. Instead of bringing water and hay to her cows, she loaded them up ...
The film discusses the process and importance of irrigation in transforming arid lands in the American West into productive farmlands. It explains how water is diverted from snowmelt in the mountains ...
For six decades — from a desert kibbutz to California’s Central Valley — I have had the exciting good fortune to watch drip ...
Irrigation is a common agricultural/horticultural practice that uses a number of methods to add water to the soil in times of insufficient rain. Choosing the ...
Under the bright Cagayan Valley sun, a different kind of harvest recently took place at the Rami Farm School in San Mateo. Instead of gathering crops, farmers were harvesting knowledge—learning how ...
Lives of people living in Arid and Semi Arid Lands (ASAL) ravaged by drought and hunger is set to change, thanks to the launch of an innovative and cost-effective irrigation technology. The new shower ...
AJ Carrillo farms 18 acres outside of Hotchkiss, Colorado, in the high desert of the Western Slope about an hour southeast of Grand Junction. When he irrigates his peach orchard, water gushes from big ...
The world has to feed a growing population with the same area of land and less water. Irrigation is key to managing this problem. A 10-year project called Transforming Irrigation in Southern Africa ...