“If it don’t rain, it don’t matter!” was an often repeated catchphrase of agronomist Dr. John Baldwin. It simply meant that no matter how successful a dryland farmer was in implementing best ...

FRESNO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Netafim USA, along with project partners Sustainable Conservation, De Jager Dairy, McRee Dairy and Western United Dairies, has received the 2020 U.S. Dairy ...

FRESNO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--In the face of stricter environmental regulations, California dairy farmers are now able to apply for NRCS cost-sharing grants to implement Netafim’s innovative ...

This week, the question comes from yours truly (i.e., Dr. Marisa Thompson, regular writer of this column). I’ve heard about subsurface drip as an improved way to irrigate turfgrass, so I invited NMSU ...

ABSTRACT Advancements in irrigation technology have increased water use efficiency. However, producers can be reluctant to convert to a more efficient irrigation system when the initial investment ...

The Nebraska Environmental Trust has approved a grant to construct a subsurface drip irrigation system that will used effluent from the UNL Panhandle Research Feedlot to water crops on plots near the ...

Sustainable Conservation, an environmental group recognized for its on-farm groundwater recharge projects, has released a report that bolsters support for a new tool for dairies. Applying liquid ...

The SDI system installed at the Husker Harvest Days site has a self-cleaning filtering system to keep fine sands out of the drip lines. Western Irrigation estimates that SDI, because of its efficiency ...

Gary and Penny Robinson's Subsurface Drip Irrigation system is working well for Maniototo sharemilker, Luke Jeffries. Gary and Penny Robinson have received positive feedback on water use efficiency ...

Researchers affiliated with the University of Hohenheim’s Institute of Crop Science conducted a study of the effects of subsurface drip irrigation (SDI) on cannabis cultivation. The study published in ...

Efficient water use is important to superintendents. Precisely irrigating small or isolated tees is challenging with traditional sprinklers. New Mexico State University scientists evaluated four ...