- Author: Jeannette E. Warnert
Published on: July 17, 2015
The California drought has farmers looking for technical innovations that will help them save water, reported Ilan Brat in the Wall Street Journal.
The article said, in the past, the state's farmers have focused on lowering their costs for labor, energy and other inputs. But now water efficiency has their attention. New technologies described in the article include:
- a nontoxic gel that, mixed in soil, stores and slowly releases water near the roots
- a machine that electrically charges mists of pesticides and nutrients to make them stick to leaves more evenly
- satellite and aerial imagery that...
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