Modernization helps farms stay productive by improving water delivery in good years and bad.
Food security depends on reliable water delivery that can support agricultural production during the growing season in the West. Irrigation is the key factor driving that system—modernization helps sustain productive farmland and stabilizes the conditions growers need to reliably produce food year after year.
The Fruits of Their Labor: Farming in Tualatin Valley
What It Is
Supporting food security by protecting the water delivery systems that keep farms in production.
By creating resilient irrigation systems, irrigation modernization improves water delivery for crops, even during drought. Increased flexibility allows farmers and ranchers to respond to changing conditions and continue to produce food locally across the West.
Journal
The Right Leader for the Right Time
Leading Hermiston Irrigation District through their next round of modernization projects was a challenge tailor-made for retired district manager Annette Kirkpatrick’s problem solving and collaborative approach.
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Journal
Restoring the Hood River Watershed
Three decades of collaborative restoration in the Hood River Watershed.
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Video
The Difference Modernization Makes
In 2021, at the base of the Three Sisters mountains, the people of Deschutes County began to see drought conditions reminiscent of the region's worst drought year ever in 1977.
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