Andy Alfaro aalfaro@modbee.com Wednesday’s visitors watched as Gemperle cranked a valve ... a Turlock Irrigation District canal to flood an almond orchard at the Gemperle family farm near ...

The two most common forms that provide the vast majority of the irrigation in the valley are flood irrigation and overhead irrigation ... “And a second benefit is it’s easier to farm; it’s much easier ...

“We have less and less people wanting to farm, but more and more food we need to produce,” Cabot said. Many Colorado ranchers and farmers use flood and ditch irrigation methods to water their crops.

Pine Flat Reservoir provided irrigation water to his family’s farm and others like it, helping keep crops alive and communities thriving. Jake describes the Central Valley as distinctly ...

Adrian Hunolt, a rancher who raises cattle near the Bear River in Wyoming, discusses the importance of flood irrigation to both ... An alfalfa farm that’s high on a bench or an orchard in ...

However, the high cost of installation and declining farm ... irrigation, pivot irrigation, furrow irrigation systems, and terraced irrigation), product (drip emitter/drippers, tubing, irrigation ...

In Berlin, the heavy rain hit one farm hard. “We’re just filling in the ruts, level things back off, and make it so they can get in and out with their equipment,” said Emil Bengston ...