Water Is No Longer Agriculture’s Only Concern For generations, farmers have competed with weather, pests, labor shortages, and rising input costs. Increasingly, however, another challenge is emerging: agricultural water competition. Agriculture has always been...
Looking Below The Surface Groundwater is easy to overlook when conditions seem normal. A field may look healthy from the surface. Irrigation systems may be running as scheduled. Reservoir levels may be improving after a wet winter. Yet beneath the surface, groundwater...
The Margin Pressure Many Growers Are Feeling Agriculture has always required careful financial management, but many growers are finding that today’s environment leaves less room for error than ever before. Fertilizer costs, fuel expenses, labor rates, equipment...
The Decisions Start Before The Work Begins Most people picture farming as physical work. Long days in the field, equipment running, crews moving, and irrigation systems operating. But some of the biggest challenges happen long before any physical work starts....
Early Heat Waves Are Reshaping Irrigation Decisions Early-season heat waves make irrigation timing harder to manage across many growing regions as temperatures rise faster and earlier than expected. A stretch of record-breaking heat across much of the United States is...
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