Irrigation

Irrigation Strategies Pair Water-Use Efficiency With Profit Rainfall and/or access to irrigation water is essential to viable cotton production. Circumstances vary across the different regions of the Cotton Belt. Some areas are plagued by drought and declining aquifers, whereas other...

Liquid Prep App Aims To Provide Accurate Data, Global Cost-Effectiveness In a joint effort, Texas A&M AgriLife Research and IBM are working to develop low-cost sensors and a smartphone app, aimed to provide farmers a new tool for making real-time decisions about when...

More Yield With Less Nitrogen Through Fertigation ⋅ BY AMANDA HUBER ⋅ SOUTHEAST EDITOR Besides being a necessary element, water can also be an efficient method for transporting pesticides and nutrients to the crop.  “Fertigation is applying fertilizer to the plant through a...

⋅ BY TRACY COURAGE ⋅ University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture The Arkansas Soil and Water Education Conference has been educating Arkansas farmers and other agriculture professionals for a quarter of a century on how to use new technology and...

As farmers prepare for the upcoming growing seasons, the dawning of a new year is a reminder of the new things to come. The Alabama Cooperative Extension System is planning two precision agriculture workshops in February. These workshops are...

Tarnished plant bugs and thrips are major insect pests for South Carolina cotton. But Clemson University researchers assure growers help is on the way. During the 2022 Agronomic and Vegetable Field Day at the Edisto Research and Education Center (REC)...

Avoid Water Deficit Stress At Critical Cotton Growth Stages ⋅ By Carroll Smith ⋅ Editor The initial bloom that appears near the bottom of the cotton plant is white. After pollination, it quickly turns pink and then red. July is typically the...

By Tiffany Dobbyn • UC Davis researchers are collaborating with the California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) and UC Agriculture and Natural Resources on a project to help farmers in the state improve their fertilization and irrigation practices. CDFA received...

Crop May Have A Place In Areas Where Water Is Less Available • By Pat Melgares, Kansas State University • Is there room for cotton in Kansas … the Wheat State? There certainly is, says Kansas State University water resources engineer Jonathan Aguilar,...

I once had a girl friend named “Earlene” (not her real name). Earlene was attending a pre-wedding function in Birmingham on a Saturday and had to travel through Decatur where I was working. With my boss’ permission, I invited...

​Drew Gholson, coordinator of the National Center for Alluvial Aquifer Research and Mississippi State University Extension irrigation specialist, covers irrigation water management practices that decrease water use and increase yield, net returns and water use efficiency in Mid-South cotton...

• By Ryan McGeeney • Farmers in five counties in southeastern Arkansas suffered more than $200 million in direct losses to major crops after the major flooding and storm event in early June, according to a preliminary estimate by experts...

Deltapine Launches 14th NPE Season With 11 Varieties The Deltapine New Product Evaluator Program kicks off its 14th season with NPE growers evaluating cotton variety candidates containing ThryvOn Technology. This is the industry’s first cotton biotech trait to protect against...

A new online resource is helping agricultural producers find technologies to improve water conservation on irrigated land. The Mississippi State University Extension Service is among four land-grant universities collaborating on the webpage, which is available at http://surfaceirrigation.extension.msstate.edu. The page hosts...

Help us by participating in an irrigation survey. The questions in this survey are only about furrow- or flood-irrigated croplands. Flood-irrigated croplands still play an important role in supplying food, feed and fiber demands in the United States but have received...