Much like the engine that powers your tractor, farmland drives your operation forward by providing the fuel your crops need to survive. Before installing a well, hire a professional to drill a ...

(AP) - Gov. Brian Kemp announced that Georgia farmers will be able to drill new irrigation wells next year. Jason Cox, who grows peanuts and cotton in southwest Georgia, says farming would be ...

“I’d be out of business,” said Cox, who farms 3,000 acres (1,200 hectares) acres around Pelham. For more than a decade, farmers in parts of southwest Georgia haven’t been able to drill new irrigation ...

and that became the cue for him to start digging wells. And, to stem desertification, he also built an intake weir and an irrigation canal that drew water from the Kunar River in eastern ...

For more than a decade, farmers in parts of southwest Georgia haven’t been able to drill new irrigation wells to the Floridian aquifer, the groundwater nearest the surface. That’s because ...