Furrow irrigation, in this way, becomes a guardian of the very foundation upon which successful crops thrive. Weed and Pest Management In the eternal battle against invasive forces, furrow irrigation ...

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 ...

The subsurface drip irrigation systems that have enhanced water use efficiency and increased yields in processing tomatoes may also have long-term effects on soil life that are worth monitoring.

Furrow-irrigated rice has been gaining ground, increasing from less than 1% to 10% of total rice acreage in Arkansas in the past five years. A new handbook from the University of Arkansas System ...

Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station researchers are steadily improving water conservation tactics. They can now grow rice with about half the irrigation water used in levee rice systems. Chris ...

Growing rice typically requires a lot of water, and researchers in Arkansas are looking for ways to conserve water and minimize greenhouse gas emissions with sustainable practices that farmers can use ...

With each passing year, access to clean, potable water is an increasingly contentious issue. In part one of this three-part series on water scarcity, I outlined the issue at hand. To recap, at current ...