Volume 15 Issue 3 Mar

This year, Gary Kennedy will be stepping down as the superintendent of the Mancos Water Conservancy District after 34 years of service. Gary has truly been an irrigation leader throughout his career:

Volume 15 Issue 2 Feb

Satellites, canal-spanning solar projects, concrete on a roll, artificial intelligence (AI)—all these things and more may be coming soon to an irrigation district near you. This month’s…

Volume 15 Issue 1 Jan

With its Farm and Ranch Enterprise, located in the Four Corners area of Colorado, the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe is one of the largest irrigators in the state. It grows alfalfa…

Volume 14 Issue 10 Nov/Dec

Beginning around 2009, Murrumbidgee Irrigation (MI), one of Australia’s largest private irrigation companies, set out on an automation journey that has resulted in vast…

Volume 14 Issue 9 October

In our cover interview this month, my friend Patrick Sigl, a principal managing attorney at the Salt River Project and the volunteer chair of the National Water Resources…

Volume 14 Issue 8 September

For more than 70 years, the Four States Irrigation Council has been providing irrigators from Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, and Wyoming a forum to connect with each other…

Volume 14 Issue 7 July/August

As a native of western Nebraska, I can attest that it is no place to grow pineapples in the winter. Yet farmers are doing just that with simple geothermal greenhouses…

Volume 14 Issue 6 June

Touring irrigated farmland in Australia is always impressive. Stricken by the Millennium Drought of 1998–2010, Australia reacted vigorously with government policy, the…

Volume 14 Issue 5 May

Truckee-Carson Irrigation District (TCID) is located in an area of the arid Great Basin that is nonetheless known as the Oasis of Nevada because of its irrigation-enabled…

Volume 14 Issue 4 April

Many Bureau of Reclamation irrigation projects Workshop, held in January 2023 in Phoenix, Arizona, were set up with the understanding that after their where Hobas CEO Martin Dana…