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The Board of Directors of the High Plains Underground Water Conservation District will hold a Feb. 21 public hearing to discuss, consider, receive public comment, and potentially act on adoption of an enforcement policy/penalty schedule for violations of district rules....More

With world population expected to increase from 7 billion to 9 billion people in the next 40 years, farmers globally are expected to produce more food and fiber on less land and water. That’s an extreme challenge in the arid U.S. West and Southwest, where large-scale farms struggle to survive economically amid chronic drought conditions and increasing costs for surface water. Arizona, for example, is in its 15th consecutive year of drought....More

If you didn’t like the summer of 2011, chances look pretty good that you aren’t going to be happy with 2012, either. And 2013, ’14, and ’15 could add to your discontent....More

Farmers, ranchers, and other landowners are invited to attend a regional conservation drought seminar to be held at the Dewey County Fairgrounds in Taloga, Oklahoma on September 20, 2011....More

To help farmers make the best use of limited irrigation water in the arid West, U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) researchers are helping farmers determine how much water major crops actually need....More

New technology, along with new groundwater conservation district regulations, will help High Plains farmers prolong their ability to irrigate cropland....More

The United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), today signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to form an innovative partnership of federal agencies to address America's growing water resources challenges....More

New water use regulations for a 16-county region of the High Plains are of such monumental importance to the region’s economy that they should not be rushed to a hasty adoption, David Gibson, executive vice president of the Corn Producers Association of Texas, said Friday from the CPAT Lubbock headquarters....More

Computerized expert systems for various farming operations like irrigation have been around for a number of years now, but they’re continually being updated, evolving with the needs of growers....More