OSU’s dry mapping project will be published online sometime in September. Dry farming is not a new innovation, but one that goes back to the earliest days of agriculture.

PORT TOWNSEND — Amaranth. Camelina. Quinoa. What sound like unusual girls’ names are actually types of plants that should be familiar to farmers and gardeners living in the rain shadow of the Olympic ...

Nebert: With the OSU Dry Farming Project and also Amy at the Dry Farming Institute nonprofit, have been envisioning this future where there’s more awareness of dry farming.

University of California, Davis, has multiple studies on dry-farming or reduced irrigation, including a project to breed drought-resilient wheat. Studies show that a hybrid model—adding just 4 to 8 ...

“There is not a precise recipe,” Garret said, “so I cannot say who can and cannot dry garden, although dry farming vegetables in areas with less than 20 inches of annual rainfall would be ...

The squash plants’ leaves are wilted and crinkled in the mid-day heat, and look like they desperately need water. But unless it rains, they won’t get any.

Madam A-ankeli Adugbila, another 38-year-old smallholder from the Awaredoone community has now found stability through dry-season farming, made possible by the solar-powered irrigation system.

He said the N200 million project was for dry season rice farming. He explained that 100 hectares, out of the 200, earmarked for rice farming, was irrigated for dry season farming.

Dry season farming in the past was a mere subsistence farming until of recent when it was turned to means of livelihood through CBN intervention fund writes SINA FADARE.