Plants need water, and people aren’t always around to provide it. I realized this fact when a wildfire engulfed my rural ...

This involves sowing seeds directly in a field with a machine. There is no transplantation involved. This method lowers water consumption by 30 per cent. It reduces labour, irrigation and electricity ...

Irrigation systems can be expensive. As a farmer, you need to choose the irrigation method that will work for you and ensure that you get maximum returns. Irrigation is the application of water to the ...

Tenth in a series republished with permission from the San Diego County Water Authority‘s website. Irrigation is an essential part of any good landscape design. It ensures plants and trees get the ...

An irrigation method uses 50 percent less water than traditional systems to grow potatoes – an important finding for the $131 million-a-year Florida crop. University of Florida Institute of Food and ...

Water trickles out of a tiny black plastic tube and flows onto a spot near a young banana plant. The set-up looks simple, but it works with precision. The tube delivers just the right amount of water, ...

In greenhouse studies, lateral movement and toxicity of S-ethyl N-ethylthiocyclohexanecarbamate (cycloate) to barnyardgrass (Echinochloa crusgalli (L.) Beauv.) was greater in a loamy sand soil than in ...