We humans are supposed to number about 7.8 billion by 2050. Feeding every one of those mouths demands food production in new, less-than-“optimal” areas. Like the Sahara. And if these monstrous ...

Illaj Integrated Farm (IIF) in Kaduna has announced its readiness to launch the largest centre pivot irrigation system machine in Africa. The machine will transform grass and crop production for both ...

Developer Loop Energia has built a 1.2 MW offgrid solar plant that now serves a center-pivot irrigation system in the Brazilian state of Bahia. The project reportedly enables local farmers to double ...

If you live in the Great Plains, sooner or later you’ll get a question about those “crop circles” that can be observed from airplane windows during flights over the region. The answer is contained in ...

No irrigation system can distribute water perfectly evenly across an entire field. Center pivot irrigation involves a powered structure that rotates a steel pipe with sprinklers to water crops. But ...

Human existence boils down to one brutal fact: however much food you have, it’s enough to last for the rest of your life. Finding your next meal has always been the central organizing fact of life, ...

LA VISTA, Neb. (KOLN) - The Valley Irrigation Valley Center Pivot was named the 2024 “Coolest Thing Made in Nebraska” on Tuesday. The champion was announced at the NE Chamber’s Manufacturing Summit in ...

Climate risk has been in the news lately. A board member of a major German insurance conglomerate, Allianz SE, warned in a dramatic March 25 LinkedIn post that extreme weather events are increasing ...

IN A move to drought-proof sugar cane, the first of the 40 new centre pivots being installed by MSF Sugar across 17 sugar cane farming projects is ready. Part of the $15 million water efficiency ...

McAllister Irrigation began in 1999, and over the years Jim and Jordan worked on creating, repairing and maintaining pivots. Jordan had been helping his father in the field since he was a kid. “That’s ...

Robert B. Daugherty, a Nebraska businessman who helped transform the rural landscape into a patchwork of circular fields by popularizing a means of irrigation that used a pipe on wheels pivoting ...