agriculture

Stanford researchers create model to help farmers reduce water usage

Dried plants and parched ground are seen outside Stanford in this 2014 Daily file photo. (Photo: KATHERINE CARR/The Stanford Daily)…

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Ag land values benefit from groundwater recharge, runoff

Photo: Fresno Irrigation District General Manager Bill Stretch continues a management acumen of groundwater recharge borne from his predecessor. Agricultural…

2 years ago

Upper Colorado River States Add Muscle as Decisions Loom on the Shrinking River’s Future

Flows in the White River (pictured above) and other tributaries of the upper Colorado River have declined dramatically and contributed…

2 years ago

Iowa farms using low-tech systems to filter fertilizer-borne nitrates from water

Photo: A worker shovels wood chips in a bioreactor trench in a farm field, on March 28, 2023, near Roland,…

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Farmers Recharged Groundwater by Catching Atmospheric Rivers

Photo: Standing water in a blooming almond orchard cause by excessive rain near Manteca, California. After years of drought and…

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