Drip irrigation is a system of hoses ... into the ground and connected to the drip system’s main hose. They spray water in a 360-degree pattern, hitting all the plants around them.

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 ...