Even small amounts of Palmer amaranth threaten furrow-irrigated rice yields, research confirms
A recently published article in the journal Weed Science demonstrates just how devastating Palmer amaranth (Amaranthus ...
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No Palmer Amaranth tolerance is advisable in furrow-irrigated rice
A recently published article in the journal Weed Science demonstrates just how devasting Palmer amaranth (Amaranthus palmeri) ...
The News International1d
World Water Day and six new canals
Adopting sustainable land and water management practices is essential to create new avenues for agricultural development. The ...
PBS2d
The Green Desert
What we've done over the last 10 years to conserve water, we've switched a lot of our crops from gravity flow furrow irrigation what we call it, to sprinkler irrigation. (sprinklers hissing ...
Global Voices Online1d
Rice farmers in Uzbekistan face water shortages and migrate
Inefficient irrigation technologies have turned the problem into a ... because the groundwater here is closer to the surface. “Fill the furrow once and the water will not leak. In Khorezm, it quickly ...
AgWeb5d
Texas Grower Puts John Deere’s See and Spray Technology to the Test
Most crops depend on supplemental water using furrow irrigation fed from wells and the Rio Grande. “Despite good rains in May, water is scarce this year. We’ll have maybe 40% of what we ...
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Stanley Uys on Hendrik Verwoerd
It has discovered, too, that apartheid cannot be checked and released at will, like water in an irrigation furrow: it has its own irresistible momentum . . . Nationalist Afrikanerdom's whole future ...