Plant water management and advanced irrigation techniques are pivotal in modern agriculture, offering enhanced water use efficiency, improved crop performance and sustainable resource management.

Tenth in a series republished with permission from the San Diego County Water Authority‘s website. Irrigation is an essential part of any good landscape design. It ensures plants and trees get the ...

Stanford researchers developed a new tool to optimize irrigation systems to help farmers reduce their water usage. Daniel Tartakovsky, professor of energy science and engineering, and Weiyu Li Ph.D.

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 ...

To aid in the fight against world hunger and malnutrition, Brigham Young University's Ezra Taft Benson Institute, a division of the College of Biology and Agriculture that delivers applied ...

A healthy lifestyle consists of a mixture of habits. Diet, exercise, sleep and other factors all must be in balance. Similarly, a sustainable farm operates on a balanced plan of soil, crop, and water ...

Picture a farm or garden, and you're likely to imagine crops planted in rows. Run water between the rows and you have furrow irrigation, one of humanity's oldest methods used to grow food. It's still ...

Water limitation and drought threaten food security in many regions worldwide, and demands on limited water supplies for crop irrigation often are in sharp conflict with other needs. Water ...