Drippers and Driplines: The Efficient and Cost-Effective Way to Water Plants It an amazing night when you go to sleep knowing that you’ve deployed the gold standard in your irrigation strategies. Regardless of your growing condition or farm terrain, you need an irrigation system that helps you to…
Five Innovations In Sustainable Agriculture To Help You Move Into The Future Sustainable farming is increasingly transitioning from a commodity to a necessity. As global demand keeps increasing, we need to keep our farming businesses and food systems thriving. With the increasing global warming and climate change, there…
Drip Irrigation: The Most Efficient Irrigation System As a grower, you want to grow your crops anywhere in any climate, soil, and topography. Drip irrigation is a water-efficient method transforming the lives of millions of small and large-scale farmers worldwide. It's assisting them to increase crop yields while…
Top 4 Factors To Consider When Choosing an Irrigation System for Your Farm The choice of irrigation system is critical to the success of an agricultural project. Before making your decision, it's essential to understand your water needs and how they will be met by the system you…
How Often Should You Water Outdoor Plants? If you have ever had an outdoor plant that has grown quite well, then you know how amazing they are! You may have even become obsessed with them and started to try new things with them. Watering your plants is an…
Plastic mulches has tremendous effects on the growth and yield of crops. Black plastic showed superior performance among the plastic mulches. Black plastic mulch suppresses the weed growth and thereby, increase the fruit yield. Plastic mulches reduce the amount of water lost from the soil due to evaporation.…
Wine Growing in a Changing Climate: Irrigation Must Change Too Growing wine grapes is an exciting investment that can be a steady source of income. Although setting up a vineyard can be pretty complex, grapes are easy to plant, care for, market, and harvest. They have a high…
Drip Irrigation is the most efficient water and nutrient delivery system for growing crops. It delivers water and nutrients directly to the plant’s root zone, in the right amounts, at the right time, so each plant gets exactly what it needs, when it needs it, to grow optimally.…
Although installation and maintenance of a drip system is no more labor-intensive or complex than that of a traditional system, designing a drip system for maximum water distribution efficiency does require much thought. Drip irrigation designs can only truly optimize the application of water if water waste below…
Irrigation is important in producing high quality tree fruit such as avocado, apples, peaches, plums, oranges, bananas, pawpaws and pears among others. Learning the art of watering fruit trees can be one of the most challenging things for beginning gardeners. Gardening in places with frequent rainfall can make…