A new study shows that machine-learning models can accurately predict daily crop transpiration using direct plant ...

Water availability is fundamental to crop production, and in the last few years farmers have seen widely varying degrees of moisture available during the growing season – both too much and too little.

The equivalent of 70 nurse tanks of nitrogen per day and one truckload of phosphorous per hour is flowing through the confluence of the Des Moines and the Raccoon rivers in central Iowa. This ...

Winter had arrived, kicking off Yuma growers’ most important season for leafy greens. John Boelts, co-owner of Desert Premium Farms, had planted 80 acres of lettuce seedlings but lost 25 acres, nearly ...

As the state sitting above the largest portion of the United States’ largest aquifer, Nebraska relies on groundwater not just for hydrating, but irrigating. In growing corn, soybean and other crops, ...

Across the world, irrigation dominates freshwater consumption, accounting for 88% of all the freshwater consumed on a global scale. In the western United States, this is no different, as irrigated ...

California’s statewide Sustainable Groundwater Management Act, established in 2014, requires local groundwater sustainability agencies to adopt sustainability plans for high and medium priority basins ...

Western Kansas is running out of the water needed to fuel irrigated agriculture. Why is it so hard for farmers to switch to alternative crops? GRAY COUNTY, Kansas — In dry western Kansas, the sound of ...

Plants standing in water die within 24 to 48 hours. This flooded area in Cottonwood County was photographed on June 26. [MUSIC PLAYING] CATHY WURZER: In about 25 minutes from now, Governor Walz will ...