Drought hit coffee farmers in Brazil hard last year, drying up trees and driving global prices to record highs. But Rodrigo Brondani is expecting a bumper harvest.

Jared Faurot’s blue jeans are getting sprayed under the drip hose sprinklers. Faurot stands beside a center pivot tower, fiddling with a spigot, aiming it closer to the ground. He turned water on this ...

On extremely hot and dry days, an irrigation event can decrease canopy temperature close to 50 degrees Fahrenheit. Relative ...

Weather pattern changes can mean more violent storm and that can impact farmers who depend on center pivot irrigation, David ...

As he inspects rows of plants laden with green coffee cherries, a long irrigation arm passes overhead nearby. It traces a wide circle above the trees from a central pivot, like the hand of a clock.

As he inspects rows of plants laden with green coffee cherries, a long irrigation arm passes overhead nearby. It traces a wide circle above the trees from a central pivot, like the hand of a clock.

As he inspects rows of plants laden with green coffee cherries, a long irrigation arm passes overhead nearby. It traces a wide circle above the trees from a central pivot, like the hand of a clock.

As he inspects rows of plants laden with green coffee cherries, a long irrigation arm passes overhead nearby. It traces a wide circle above the trees from a central pivot, like the hand of a clock.