The sight is not uncommon in California: water moving slowly across farm fields, in broad sheets or through a grid of ditches, propelled only by the pull of gravity. Flood irrigation is a tried and ...

A recent test has shown that drip irrigation is more efficient than furrow irrigation when growing sugar beets. In California, sugar beets are mostly grown only in the low-desert region of the ...

If you've got a box of extra PVC pipes and fittings sitting your shed or garage from a previous project, you're halfway to creating your own drip system.

JAMIESON, Ore. — Corey Maag’s mid-1990s shift to drip irrigation made him an early adopter of the method now common in the sizable southeast Oregon/southwest Idaho onion growing region. “We kind of ...

Researchers from China's Northwest A&F University have developed a novel drip irrigation system powered by PV, which stores energy in the form of compressed air. The use of compressed air not only ...

For Trevor Hardy of Brookdale Fruit Farm, flexible irrigation design is the key to managing unpredictable weather, limited ...

Expert DIYer April Wilkerson installs an easy drip system for garden irrigation to save water and time. Opinion: Trump isn’t ...

Farmer James Nyamai states that drip irrigation has helped in growing at his farm Machakos county on Wednesday, January 21st, 2015. The chicken farm contains 2,043 chicks.[PHOTO: ANGELA MAINA/STANDARD ...

Drip irrigation systems are probably the most efficient for our climate, but they do require some periodic maintenance. It’s pretty easy to do this maintenance yourself, and it won’t take long. It ...