RIVERDALE, Calif. — Last year, the federal government gave farmer Dan Errotabere half of the water it had awarded him the previous year to cultivate his 5,200 acres. But he still managed to reap a ...
EL CAJON, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Toro is pleased to announce a new exclusive drip tape recycling service in California. The on-farm pick-up service is now available to all Toro growers with ...
For Trevor Hardy of Brookdale Fruit Farm, flexible irrigation design is the key to managing unpredictable weather, limited ...
PASCO, Wash. — On a day in May, Benjamin Bauman headed to a farm that had removed old drip tape from 1,000 acres of farmland. It was laying in piles on the farm. By removing and recycling the drip ...
A recent test has shown that drip irrigation is more efficient than furrow irrigation when growing sugar beets. In California, sugar beets are mostly grown only in the low-desert region of the ...
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 ...
After working on farms around the world, Sean Coronis had seen his fair share of “drip tape,” the plastic tubing used for irrigation in most large farms. Drip tape, also referred to as “t-tape” or ...
If you’re like me, you, too, are lying awake at night wondering which is better, drip tape or tubular irrigation. A friend sent me a helpful primer the other morning. Now I can go back to wondering if ...
TONOPAH, AZ — With a water shortage already an issue in Arizona, the Central Arizona Project (CAP) is looking for new ways to conserve water for farming, and it may have found one. CAP and others are ...