Water
Recent rainfall provides hope for Georgia farmers
Welcome rains during December 2016 and the first week of 2017 are providing hope for Georgia farmers looking for relief from a statewide severe drought, according to Pam Knox, University of Georgia (UGA) agricultural climatologist... more »
Irrigation Association’s Tree Drip Calculator receives an AE50 award
The American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE) has named the Tree Drip Calculator (TDC) as a winner of one of its 2017 AE50 awards. The product was created by the Irrigation Association’s Technical... more »
California awarded nearly $22M in conservation partnership funding
The USDA has announced that 88 high-impact projects across the U.S. will receive nearly a quarter billion dollars in federal funding as part of the USDA’s Regional Conservation Partnership Program (RCPP). In addition, partners have... more »
Michigan meetings to provide irrigation update
Six Michigan agribusinesses will assist Michigan State University (MSU) Extension in an educational effort by serving as host for a series of irrigation update session scattered across Michigan. Irrigated crop management topics to be presented... more »
EPA review curbs Michigan exemptions on CWA enforcement
EPA released a final agency action on Michigan’s “delegated authority”—those provisions that grant the state’s Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) partial control over Clean Water Act (CWA) enforcement in the state. And at first blush, it’s... more »
New brief asks court to throw out WOTUS rule
The American Farm Bureau Federation, along with dozens of agricultural, business, and municipal entities, asked a federal court Nov. 1 to vacate EPA’s and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ “Waters of the United States”... more »
MSU’s research stations get irrigation capability
In areas of the eastern U.S. with adequate rainfall, traditional wisdom says irrigation isn’t worthwhile, but that is changing. With the need to reduce risk and optimize root growth in high-density plantings, more fruit growers... more »
UC Davis releases estimates of irrigated cropland idled due to drought
On August 15, a team from UC Davis, ERA Economics and the UC Agricultural Issues Center released an economic impact report related to the California drought of 2016. Several commentaries have indicated that land fallowing... more »
