PowerPollen head of engineering Jason Kelsick walks through a row of corn in a field, Thursday, Aug. 22, 2024, near Ames, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie … HOMESTEAD, Fla. (AP) — Jeremy Ford hates wasting water.
As a mist of rain sprinkled the fields around him in Homestead, Florida, Ford bemoaned how expensive it had been running a fossil fuel-powered irrigation system on his five-acre farm — and how bad it was for the planet.
Earlier this month, Ford installed an automated underground system that uses a solar-powered pump to periodically saturate the roots of his crops, saving “thousands of gallons of water.” […]
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