Insights and Stories on Irrigation

AGI to buy into soil microbe breeding firm

Jun. 14, 2021 at 9:15 pm CDT

A U.S. company ramping up a system to harvest, reproduce and restore beneficial microbes from a field’s own soils, as a way to restore peak fertility, expects to get backing soon from a Canadian farm equipment maker. Winnipeg-based Ag Growth International (AGI) said Monday it has signed a conditional letter […]

Federal fund, Alberta government back irrigation upgrades

Oct. 10, 2020 at 6:16 am CDT

By Dave Bedard

Federal irrigation pledge seen flowing mainly to Prairies

Oct. 1, 2020 at 7:47 pm CDT

By D.C. Fraser

Coffee may profit more than soy in Brazil’s new farming frontier

Mar. 27, 2018 at 3:45 am CDT

By roberto-samora

Ontario power utilities offer farm water pump rebate

Mar. 25, 2018 at 6:41 am CDT

By Staff

California rules led to near 25 per cent cut in water use

Apr. 4, 2016 at 5:18 pm CDT

Sacramento | Reuters –– Residents and businesses in drought-stricken California cut back water use by nearly 25 per cent from June 2015 through the end of February 2016 — enough to supply nearly six million people for a year, officials said Monday. The state’s first ever mandatory cutbacks in water […]

By Sharon Bernstein

Drought exposes cracks in Australia’s acclaimed water market

Sep. 20, 2015 at 10:17 am CDT

Sydney | Reuters — A pioneering Australian scheme to improve the management of water in the world’s driest inhabited continent is facing its first real test as an intensifying El Nino threatens crops and builds tensions between farmers and environmentalists. The three-year old management plan for the Murray-Darling basin, an […]

By Colin Packham

California curtails some senior water rights due to drought

Jun. 12, 2015 at 3:59 pm CDT

Los Angeles | Reuters — California’s water board curtailed senior water rights on Friday in the state’s Delta, San Joaquin and Sacramento regions due to drought, in the first move of its kind during the current drought, officials said. The curtailment affects more than 100 senior water rights holders, with […]

By Reuters

Drought prompts cuts to farm irrigation in California, Oregon

May. 16, 2015 at 12:54 am CDT

Portland | Reuters –– The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation will cut the amount of federal irrigation water available to farmers along the Oregon-California border to half the annual norm as it grapples with a fourth year of regional drought, the agency said on Friday. Though the roughly 1,200 affected farms […]

By Courtney Sherwood

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