An ag-tech company has developed an army of resilient crops by growing them with salt water. These crops are better at surviving salty soils, which is a growing problem in our warming world.

With global water demand projected to rise substantially in coming decades, improving water productivity in agriculture is ...

Water availability is fundamental to crop production, and in the last few years farmers have seen widely varying degrees of moisture available during the growing season – both too much and too little.

Winter had arrived, kicking off Yuma growers’ most important season for leafy greens. John Boelts, co-owner of Desert Premium Farms, had planted 80 acres of lettuce seedlings but lost 25 acres, nearly ...

Discover why rice cultivation is water-intensive due to flooding practices, transpiration, and its unique physiological ...

Following a strategic technology-scouting framework led by Universal Materials Incubator, the National Agricultural Development Company has entered into a partnership to launch large-scale field ...

Across the world, irrigation dominates freshwater consumption, accounting for 88% of all the freshwater consumed on a global scale. In the western United States, this is no different, as irrigated ...