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 ...

The program – Center Pivot Irrigation Test Program, or CPIT – is a testing service implemented by Clemson Cooperative Extension Service Water Resources, Agronomic Crops and Horticulture Program teams ...

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 ...

WHITING, Iowa — Dolf Ivener turned to sunshine to water his corn field this growing season. Ivener became the first Siouxland farmer to power a center-pivot irrigation system with solar energy. It’s ...

From an airliner or space shuttle, they look like perfect green dots on the face of the Earth. Nebraskans know them well. They’re called center pivots and they are one of the marvels of modern-day ...

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 ...

Reinke Manufacturing donated a center-pivot irrigation system to help Nebraska College of Technical Agriculture students get hands-on experience with the hardware. Center-pivot irrigation was ...

Ivener became the first Siouxland farmer to power a center pivot irrigation system with solar energy. It's also one of the first of its kind nationally. He designed a photovoltaic system based on the ...

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 ...

BURLEY — Converting furrow irrigated fields to sprinkler systems can save crop producers time and money while improving water quality, but those benefits come at a cost. Depending on the system and ...

Center-pivot irrigation sprinklers rotate around a water supply to create a circular field of crops. Courtesy U.S. Geological Survey __1952: __Frank Zybach gets a patent for the center-pivot irrigator ...