Irrigation’s Role in Sustaining Value and Mitigating Risk

Leave with an up-to-date understanding of rapidly evolving factors and pressures and how these pressures will likely affect the irrigation industry.

Ashley PattersonJuly 17, 2023

Center pivot-mounted sensors support reduced irrigation while maintaining crop yields

A new study funded by the Irrigation Innovation Consortium found reduced irrigation applications as compared to the common practice, maintained crop yield.

Ashley PattersonJuly 17, 2023

Colorado Corn Council features IIC research

In their most recent Field Journal, CO Corn Council featured an article highlighting three IIC research projects.

Ashley PattersonMay 15, 2023

IIC Exec Dir Tim Martin’s work recognized with CSU College of Ag Science Award

Congratulations to Dr. Timothy (Tim) Martin, Irrigation Innovation Consortium’s Executive Director, recognized for his outstanding contributions to research and scholarship by Colorado State University’s College of Agricultural Sciences.

Ashley PattersonMay 15, 2023

Game on! New CSU-TAPS competition launches at ARDEC

CSU-TAPS is a unique crop production contest. Rather than awarding prizes for top yields, TAPS rewards farm profitable and input use-efficient crop production management skills.

Ashley PattersonMay 1, 2023

CSU-TAPS Program Newsletter Sign-up

Sign up for the 2023 CSU Testing Ag Performance Solutions (TAPS) program newsletter! We will provide competition updates and short articles on a range of irrigation/farm management topics on a ~monthly basis throughout the year.

Ashley PattersonMarch 26, 2023

IIC supported research project explores irrigation technologies for producing specialty crops

A 2022 project supported by Irrigation Innovation Consortium at Texas A&M AgriLife Research tested water management techniques for specialty crops, such as watermelons.

Ashley PattersonMarch 15, 2023

Learning from producer management via friendly competition

Integrating new systems, technologies, tools, or strategies to manage crop inputs and outcomes involves risk and challenges for growers.

Ashley PattersonFebruary 22, 2023

Parallel 41 Flux Network expands to include new towers, new capabilities

The Parallel 41 Flux Network, a series of eddy covariance (EC) flux towers is providing accurate and timely ET data to support Great Plains producers.

Amy KremenDecember 13, 2022

Programs seek to fill irrigation knowledge gap

The ag irrigation industry offers a lot of new technology, but in many cases, farmers aren’t putting it to use. New training and competition programs aim to help.

Amy KremenDecember 13, 2022

IIC is supporting advances in innovation and adoption

As water becomes increasingly scarce in the American West, a group of university and industry partners has been pursuing innovations in the largest use of this key resource: agricultural irrigation.

Amy KremenDecember 13, 2022

IIC Webinar Nov 15: Advancing Irrigated Turf Management

Join us November 15 for an interactive workshop with IIC’s network of turf experts to focus on research, management, and adoption challenges and solutions in landscape irrigation.

NewsSusan HuttonOctober 30, 2022