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About a third of producer fields studied were successful in achieving high yields within irrigated water requirements.

Study: High crop yields compatible with irrigation estimates

June 14, 2019

Agriculture & Environment

Society & Culture

Rezaul Mahmood (left), co-leader of the GRAINEX project, talks with a student and co-leader Eric Rappin (right) of Western Kentucky University.

Husker-led research team to examine irrigation's role in precipitation

July 11, 2018

Agriculture & Environment

Science & Technology

Nebraska research hydrologist Joe Szilagyi has shown that precipitation has decreased in the most heavily irrigated regions of Nebraska, a finding that could have worldwide water-conservation implications if substantiated by further research.

Research shows large-scale irrigation reduces local precipitation

February 27, 2018

Agriculture & Environment

Seven free public lectures at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, beginning in January and lasting through April, will focus on various aspects of advances in irrigation management.

Lectures focus on advances in irrigation management

January 12, 2018

Study: Maximizing grain yields won't meet future African needs

December 12, 2016

Agriculture & Environment

Science & Technology

NSF grant to support next-gen underground sensors

August 26, 2016

Agriculture & Environment

Science & Technology

UNL landscape services employees Michael Tomjack (left) and Fred Thorne use a vibrating plow to install new irrigation pipe by the Van Brunt Visitors Center. UNL has started a campuswide upgrade of its irrigation system. When complete, it is projected to decrease campus water usage by at least 20 percent annually.

Irrigation upgrade to cut UNL's water use, expense

March 30, 2016

Agriculture & Environment

Tara Troy

Troy to discuss impacts of climate, irrigation on crop yields

November 16, 2015