Automation helped all the surveyed farmers use less water. On average, they reduced their irrigation run times by 1.4 hours a day—or 24%. Adam Whitehurst, who grows watermelon in Alachua and ...

The Blackville-based Edisto Research and Education Center is conducting trials of sweet potatoes with and without irrigation. ... The EREC Watermelon Field Day is scheduled for Thursday, July 13.

It's important to know how to pick out a good watermelon, regardless if you are at the grocery store or the local farmers market.

(Brown’s farm has a total of 600-plus acres, for rotating the watermelon fields to keep the soil in good shape.) Although most Luke Brown melons end up in Kroger and H-E-B stores in Texas, some ...

Gardeners and farmers interested in learning how to grow seedless watermelon are invited to a special Watermelon Field Day at the University of Guam’s agricultural experiment station in ...

Irrigation uses 85% of the water consumed in the region, the same water these Kansans drink. But the economy is already so tied to irrigated crops that it’s hard to change.