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Corn on Red Rocks Ranch in Fresno County is irrigated using a center pivot overhead irrigation system, which saves both labor and water usage. The system, which is controlled by computer, improves uniformity and reduces evaporation. August 6, 2009.

Corn is irrigated in Fresno County with an overhead-pivot irrigation system.

Pedro Garcia flood irrigates with siphon tubes, Sacramento Delta, CA.
Colonia Los Laureles, population approximately 80,000, is a shantytown settlement of mostly factory workers in the steep canyons along the US Border near Tijuana. During winter months, rain washes sediment and trash downhill into the United States and the Pacific Ocean.

Thursday, April 15th, 2010 at 2:20 pm