Sub-surface drip irrigation is starting to be used on the Canadian Prairies and promises higher returns with less water use.

This week, the question comes from yours truly (i.e., Dr. Marisa Thompson, regular writer of this column). I’ve heard about subsurface drip as an improved way to irrigate turfgrass, so I invited NMSU ...

LOGAN, Utah — Drip irrigation is a highly efficient irrigation method well suited to many fruit and vegetable row crops. Drip tubing or tape discharges water to the soil through emitters positioned ...

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

TIFTON — Drip irrigation systems have long helped Georgia vegetable farmers grow high yielding crops. A University of Georgia Cooperative Extension expert says sub-surface drip irrigation can help ...

“Subsurface drip irrigation is currently the most efficient way to irrigate the landscape. It can also be used for flower beds and other areas, such as vegetable gardens. Water distribution is not ...

“If it don’t rain, it don’t matter!” was an often repeated catchphrase of agronomist Dr. John Baldwin. It simply meant that no matter how successful a dryland farmer was in implementing best ...

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TAYLOR, Utah — The slow, steady drip of water hits right where the plant is. "You can see under here, it’s just a drip, drip, drip," farmer Matt Peterson said, picking up a line running under a row of ...

This year, a subsurface drip irrigation (SDI) system has been installed at the show site to irrigate a cornfield and part of the grass parking lot south of the exhibit area. Show Manager Matt Jungmann ...