The semi-arid plains of the Pine Ridge reservation are dotted with hundreds of mobile homes and meager shacks, housing the Oglala Lakota nation — a population who have long been engaged in a ...

Research field day looks at hard science in an on-farm application. Pfaltzgraff Farms in Haxtun, Colorado, will host the event June 26.

This is especially important in arid and semi-arid regions ... system in dryland cropping systems of the U.S. northern Great Plains." The study is part of USDA-ARS ongoing long-term research ...

Grasses growing in the shade of a solar array were only a little less productive than those growing nearby in open grassland ...

The move a dozen years ago to voluntarily restrict the water they pumped from the Ogallala Aquifer, the lifeblood of the High Plains, was seen by some as a risky proposition. In the semi-arid region, ...

The placement of solar panels in Colorado’s grasslands could help decrease water stress and increase plant growth by about 20 percent during dry years, a new study has found. In these semi-arid ...