Nelson Irrigation continues to take its proprietary Rotator® technology to new levels. The R55A End of Pivot Sprinkler is changing the way farmers irrigate with center pivots. It can be used to pick ...

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 ...

DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/sqqgdf/_precision) has announced the addition of the " Precision Irrigation ...

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 ...

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 ...

Randy Weis’ potatoes weren’t just nourished by sunshine this past summer, they were watered with sunshine, too. Weis planted 130 acres of potatoes on ground owned by his mother, Darlene, southeast of ...

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 ...

GAINS AND LOWER INTEREST RATES. WELL, IT IS OFFICIAL. VALLEY IRRIGATIONS. VALLEY CENTER PIVOT IS THE COOLEST THING MADE IN NEBRASKA THIS YEAR. TENS OF THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE VOTED IN THIS YEAR’S ...

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 ...

An irrigation pivot is seen in a demonstration Thursday at a cornfield farmed by Rob Sladek in Conesville. Sladek can remotely turn the system on and off and irrigates about 10 percent of his crops.