Water management & Irrigation

Midsouth farmers are opening irrigation taps early this spring as a persistent drought has left fields short on soil moisture and slowed crop emergence. Growers in Arkansas report running center pivots and other systems to get corn, soybeans and rice established after a dry planting window. <stro...

Joe Petrocco, a fourth-generation vegetable grower in Brighton, Colorado, says the spring planting season comes with mixed pressure: soaring input costs and a welcome drop in labor expenses. Federal changes to the H-2A temporary farmworker wage calculation will reduce pay in many places by a thir...