Field Irrigators Articles & Analysis
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Field Irrigation Systems are essential in agriculture since they help provide water to plants where rain may be erratic or unavailable. Given the ever-rising population around the globe, food production is on the rise, and thus, there is a need to maximize agricultural production. Therefore, contemporary field irrigation systems ...
By monitoring the changes in soil EC, farmers can gain insights into the moisture levels of their fields and make adjustments to their irrigation schedules accordingly. ...
Customization and Flexibility: The controller offers customization options to meet specific crop and field requirements. Farmers can set irrigation parameters, define zones, and adjust water distribution patterns according to the unique needs of their crops. ...
A greenhouse organic tomato and cucumber grower saved his crop during extreme drought with Sensoterra sensors, and improved yield with soil moisture data. With extreme droughts occuring more frequently, Danny Monté, Forecast and Quality Administration and Quality Control Manager at AC Hartman BV, relies on Sensoterra soil moisture sensors to support irrigation decisions for greenhouse ...
A typical field pivot irrigation system, with one pivot covering 120 acres Currently, grower faced difficulties in determining the best harvest time Pilot consisted of 36 Sensoterra probes, placed across 8 locations ...
The system is located at the playing fields on the south-western corner ofGannet St and Rosewood Road, Amberley, QLD. A vegetated swale surrounds the playing field. The swale is an open, shallow channel designed to slow runoff, filter it, and promote infiltration into the ground. ...
“We used to use a dhenki[1] to harvest rice from our fields,” explains one of the women in Keragam, where villagers have long relied on manual labour to irrigate their paddies and process the rice and sugarcane. ...
Natural Turf AirDrain Agronomic Drainage under Soccer Field at HEB Stadium RGV FC Toros No other system comes close in ease of install, price value player safety and performance! It’s not even close! Up to a 40% reduction in irrigation for natural grass fields! Here is the ASTM D4716 Flow Rate per Unit Width and Hydraulic ...
In Northern California, the Browns Valley Irrigation District supplies water to hundreds of farmers. As this water source needs to supply many farmers in Northern California, accurate measurement is key as it ensures that farms are able to properly function and sustain the plants and/or livestock they have. The specific source of water that irrigates the ...
In Northern California, the Browns Valley Irrigation District supplies water to hundreds of farmers. As this water source needs to supply many farmers in Northern California, accurate measurement is key as it ensures that farms are able to properly function and sustain the plants and/or livestock they have. The specific source of water that irrigates the ...
Reporter Matthew Grassi from Growing Produce has just published an article about the choice growers face when switching from overhead to drip irrigation. They can save water and labor while deploying more sustainable and automated practices, but some may still be waiting to move forward. The article is titled, “Will Drip Replace Overhead Irrigation in Farm ...
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Introduction: The full ASCE/FAO-56 Penman-Monteith evapotranspiration (PM-ET) equation and crop coefficients are often employed for irrigation scheduling of open-field crops. To obtain PM-ET derived water-use figures requires access to full weather station datasets, which includes radiation, air temperature, wind-speed, and relative humidity measurements. ...
Getting the right amount of moisture to each paddock on your property to ensure grass grows well and property doesn’t scour or erode from uncontrolled water runoff is the holy grail of New Zealand farmers. Unfortunately, many assume that their irrigation company will get this sorted for them and expect that when they part out significant investments in large irrigation systems, that at ...
We spent a great deal of time coming up with our plans for our field, from irrigation, to specialized machinery, to ensuring that we’re going to be able to deliver a quality product to market. ...
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An important chance for all the companies involved in this sector such as Plastic-Puglia, a leader company for the production and trading of irrigation equipment. During the exhibition in Bologna the company showed the latest innovation to reduce the water consumption and to increase the effectiveness of the production of crops even in countries where there are insufficient ...
In this field, the business group is well known and appreciated in over 40 countries worldwide. ...
Energy saving and maximum efficiency are the cardinal points of agriculture 2.0. Today, through the micro irrigation and subsurface irrigation, agricultural production reached a high level of efficiency that assures quality and quantity. “Micro-irrigation”, or drip irrigation, is a method which allows the farmer to ...
Murray Irrigation Limited Murray Irrigation, Australia’s largest privately owned irrigation company, manages irrigation along the upper reaches of the Murray River in southeastern New South Wales. ...
In planting rice, a significant amount of irrigation water is required to prepare the farmlands and do transplanting and this is directly related to the number of machines and workers available; that is, the more the length of plowing and transplanting process due to the lack of required machinery and labor, the more the water volume consumed. ...
This study assessed the die-off of Escherichia coli (E. coli) and Ascaris suum on lettuce (Great Lakes 118) and cabbage (Brassica oleracea var capitata) in wastewater-irrigated fields using comparative mathematical die-off models. The study revealed that none of the survival curves of E. coli and A. suum was best fitted with the log-linear model, indicating ...