The collapse of an irrigation tunnel in southeastern Wyoming could cost Nebraska and Wyoming roughly 89 million dollars in economic losses if affected crops are a total loss, according to a report by university specialists in the two states. [More]
[Author: Mark Othmer, 01.2016 | Keywords: Nebraska Field Notes, Irrigation] Everyone involved with Nebraska agriculture understands the importance of irrigation and the value it adds to crop production. The following article chronicles the invention, beginning production and manufacturing of the center pivot systems that have become so vital to irrigation in Nebraska. According to one agriculture historian, two basic inventions of the past century completely changed farming methods and made possible the tremendous increase in productivity we witness today. The first was the conversion from horse-drawn farm power to tractors; the other was invented about 1950 by a man who… Read More ยป