Aggressive cover crop growth, and the lack of timely spring rain, may leave fields lacking moisture for optimum planting, ...

Efficiently managing agricultural irrigation is vital for food security today and into the future under climate change. Yet, evaluating agriculture’s hydrological impacts and strategies to reduce them ...

The system creates a complete “digital twin” of the crop that growers can use to visualize field conditions and potentially ...

This mobile irrigation system uses high-pressure sprinkler cannons to distribute water across large agricultural fields.

With climate change, irrigating more crops in the United States will be critical to sustaining future yields, as drought conditions are likely to increase due to warmer temperatures and shifting ...

In the fields surrounding Plainview, Texas, the story of this year’s winter wheat crop isn’t told in golden waves ready for harvest. Instead, fields have been searching for rain since last fall, ...

The Yellow River Basin (YRB) is a vital grain-production region in China. Its grain output constitutes approximately 35.33% of the national total, according to the “Report on Ecological Protection and ...

Welcome to Boiling Point. I’m Ian James, a reporter on The Times’ climate team, writing the newsletter this week to fill in for my colleague Sammy Roth. Farmers who grow hay in the Imperial Valley ...

Texas agriculture producers who rely on irrigation have a new tool created by Texas A&M AgriLife irrigation specialists to help them optimize water use as their crops progress through the growing ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. As a result, many farmers worldwide are seeing crop yields become smaller and less ...

By the time stress shows up from the pickup window or during routine scouting, yield potential may already be slipping away.