Recent Irrigation Articles

Irrigation efficiency will be key challenge

Oct 5, 2009 10:18 AM, By Ron Smith, Farm Press Editorial Staff

Improving irrigation efficiency for agriculture will be the crucial challenge for the Texas AgriLife Research and Extension Center as it begins its second century of service to West Texas farmers and ranchers, citizens and industries....

SDI field day slated Aug. 25

Aug 18, 2009 10:20 AM

The Texas Agri-Life Research Center at Halfway, Texas, will host a subsurface drip irrigation (SDI) field day August 25th....

Technology boost yields for West Texas cotton

Aug 13, 2009 2:30 PM, By Ron Smith, Farm Press Editorial Staff

David Pearson was trying to finish planting 3,400 acres of cotton in early June, hoping for a rain to give his dryland acreage a better chance, and hoping 2009 bears little resemblance to last year....

Global warming would affect Southwest

Aug 13, 2009 2:26 PM, By Ron Smith, Farm Press Editorial Staff

Whether climate change will occur or not and whether changes result from human activity or not, cautious Southwest businessmen, including farmers and ranchers, should plan accordingly....

Drip irrigation project yields promising results

Mar 11, 2009 10:17 AM, By Kay Ledbetter
Texas A&M University

Subsurface drip irrigation was able to produce up to four bales of cotton per acre with less water than conventional irrigation methods at the Texas AgriLife Research station near Chillicothe....

System, nutrient management are keys to drip irrigation success

Oct 15, 2008 10:08 AM, By Ron Smith
Farm Press Editorial Staff

Subsurface drip irrigation continues to expand rapidly in West Texas crop production. ...

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News from the Farm Bill

ACRE could be boon or bust for southern farmers

Jul 11, 2008 10:01 AM, By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff

The chairmen of the House and the Senate Agriculture Committees and the Bush administration couldn’t find much to agree on in the 2008 farm bill. ...

Farm bill: Several provisions delayed until 2009

Jul 8, 2008 9:38 AM

The Food, Conservation and Energy Act of 2008 that U.S. farmers will be hitched to for the next five years has something old, something new, something borrowed and certainly something to make a few farmers blue....

USDA issues advance direct payments

Jul 8, 2008 9:21 AM

America's farmers will receive up to $1.15 billion in 2008 advance direct payments that began July 7....

Food, Conservation and Energy Act for Oklahoma farmers

Jul 3, 2008 8:22 AM, By Ron Smith
Farm Press Editorial Staff

Elk City, Okla. farmer Danny Davis doesn’t expect the Average Crop Revenue Election (ACRE) program included in the recently passed Food, Conservation and Energy Act of 2008 to fit his operation....



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