RIVERDALE, Calif. — Last year, the federal government gave farmer Dan Errotabere half of the water it had awarded him the previous year to cultivate his 5,200 acres. But he still managed to reap a ...

EL CAJON, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Toro is pleased to announce a new exclusive drip tape recycling service in California. The on-farm pick-up service is now available to all Toro growers with ...

PASCO, Wash. — On a day in May, Benjamin Bauman headed to a farm that had removed old drip tape from 1,000 acres of farmland. It was laying in piles on the farm. By removing and recycling the drip ...

I love drip irrigation. I get such satisfaction from seeing the orderly lines of drip tubing in my gardens, emitting precisely measured drops of water onto plant roots. These commonplace scenes make ...

After working on farms around the world, Sean Coronis had seen his fair share of “drip tape,” the plastic tubing used for irrigation in most large farms. Drip tape, also referred to as “t-tape” or ...

TONOPAH, AZ — With a water shortage already an issue in Arizona, the Central Arizona Project (CAP) is looking for new ways to conserve water for farming, and it may have found one. CAP and others are ...

The best fertilizer may be the footsteps of the farmer, as the Chinese proverb says. But all of the fertilizer and shoe leather in the world won’t raise so much as a hill of beans without water. Just ...

If you’re like me, you, too, are lying awake at night wondering which is better, drip tape or tubular irrigation. A friend sent me a helpful primer the other morning. Now I can go back to wondering if ...

Do a web search of "water use efficiency in agriculture," and you’ll come up with a huge number of results. For Bob McKellip, the ultimate in water use efficiency on his farm boils down to two words: ...