New center pivot irrigation technologies are only beneficial if they are being used, according to a Texas A&M AgriLife Research engineer in …
Grain sorghum irrigation water-use efficiency dependent on weather conditions
Grain sorghum production is highly susceptible to changes in climatic conditions, more so than to different irrigation regiments a producer might …
Water for plant growth: The foundation of the global food supply and ecosystem services
Professor Robert Aiken, Research Crop Scientist at the Northwest Research – Extension Center and Dr. Ramesh Dhungel, Research Associate at Kansas …
OAP featured in txH2O
The Texas Water Resources Institute recently published the Fall 2018 issue of its magazine, txH2O, highlighting the range of research activities …
Farmers, Kansas Water Office, K-State to present water technology field days
Technology keeps evolving to help crop producers make every drop of water count on the fields. To demonstrate the latest in crop irrigation …
Summer Crops/OAP Center Pivot Irrigation Field Day set Aug. 9 at Bushland
A Summer Crops/OAP Center Pivot Irrigation Field Day will be hosted by Texas A&M AgriLife and the U.S. Department of Agriculture-Agricultural …
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Meeting helps citizens, officials from eight states to share ideas and concerns
More than 200 people from agriculture and other industries came together April 9-10 to discuss the challenges and opportunities for preserving …
Ogallala Aquifer Program research featured in journal
The Ogallala Aquifer Program (OAP) was featured in the December 2017 issue of the Journal of Contemporary Water Research & Education, a …
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Water use, drought-tolerant hybrids still key to dryland crop production
Risk management is the name of the game when it comes to growing dryland sorghum and corn, which both offer cropping alternatives “when and if” …
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Ogallala Aquifer 101: an overview of current research projects on this groundwater giant
Stretching from Texas to South Dakota, the Ogallala Aquifer is the largest underground water reservoir in the United States. It covers 174,000 …
