Two projects are receiving support from the USDA 2025 Specialty Crop Block Grant Program. Two interdisciplinary research ...

Current snowpack in the headwaters of the North Platte River Basin continues to be below average. Wyoming reservoir water ...

Crop irrigation — watering the plants that make our food — is one of the most intensive uses of water in the world. This year, at the United Nations 2023 Water Conference, the biggest water conference ...

“At USDA, we need to do more to also shift production systems to really be lined up with the climate reality,” said Starbuck, ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Researchers with the Oregon State University College of Engineering are working to develop a technology that aims to make agriculture more economically and environmentally ...

Efficient water usage in agriculture is crucial for sustaining a growing human population. A better understanding of the systems that support agriculture, farmers and farmlands allows for food ...

Texas agriculture producers who rely on irrigation have a new tool created by Texas A&M AgriLife irrigation specialists to help them optimize water use as their crops progress through the growing ...

Harold Dueck sees cover crops as a necessity in his cotton fields to protect the fragile cotton seedlings from the harsh and unpredictable west Texas winds. But in the dry climate of Gaines County, he ...

After a dry, unusually warm January, key Western river basins are in severe snow drought. With irrigation allocations at 0%, one Colorado producer warns tough planting decisions could reshape this ...

WILLCOX — Farmers in southeastern Arizona will soon have a fixed water allotment to grow crops and, starting in 2029, gradual state-mandated cuts for decades to come — something that could ...

With a P63-billion budget for irrigation this year, the national government will play a bigger role in the development of ...