Soil Moisture Probe Articles & Analysis
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Our goal is to provide you with the tools to make the right decision when it comes to selecting the right soil sensor for your application. We are delving into the most asked question. How do soil moisture sensors work, and what is the difference between a point and profile measurement? Soil moisture sensors measure the water content in the soil and can be used to estimate the amount of stored ...
On-farm weather stations and soil moisture probes take the guesswork out of seeding plans and execution As the 2023 seeding season is fast approaching, why not end the soil moisture guessing game on your farm? ...
Efficient use of water in commercial agriculture applications enabled by the GroGuru solution keeps fertilizer in the root zone of the crop, reducing Nitrate usage and leaching into the groundwater, and providing improved management capabilities for sustainable ...
ByGroGuru
There are issues with food waste, transportation, the microbiome, how you’re a good steward of the soil and fertilizers, and seeds. Then there’s irrigation management. ...
ByGroGuru
Soil moisture probes have been around for a long time, but they remain one of those mysterious agricultural instruments that only a small handful of people attempt to understand or use. ...
In July, Kendall Gee of Crop Intelligence, and Curtis Russell with Taurus Ag Marketing https://www.taurus.ag/team/ met in a canola field southeast of Regina to discuss how soil moisture data can help inform farm decision making throughout the growing season. The video includes a walk-through of live data from Crop Intelligence soil ...
Patrick: How long have you been involved in the use of soil moisture probes and monitoring? Nich: We can go back to the analog days of pulling cords with an oak field probe. ...
ByGroGuru
Traditional methods Current best practice involves growers installing soil moisture sensors in multiple locations (typically 1-6 sensors per 100 hectares) and interpolating to get an average reading of soil moisture across the vineyard. ...
These agronomic factors can impact how easily a plant can extract water from the soil: Soil texture Infiltration rates Water quality Effective rooting depth, and other important factors In an effort to help our customers conserve resources and irrigate with greater precision, we now offer fully integrated soil moisture ...
For him it means, “Being able to collect geolocalized human observations on the fly, or use remote sensing such as continuous soil moisture probes, to know what’s happening in the vineyard almost in real time and start tightening up those ...
Agriculture Victoria has installed several soil moisture probes on a range of soil and pasture types across Victoria. Soil moisture probes have helped with making early decisions in the cropping industry for some time with monthly analysis produced as a newsletter by Dale Boyd. ...
I was introduced to Crop Intelligence and soil moisture probes in the spring of 2018 by Ryan Hutchison. That fall, I joined South Country Equipment as a Crop Intelligence Agronomist and put two stations on my family farm in SE Saskatchewan for the 2019 season. ...
These are deployed under the pivot and include the A723 radio, solar panel, irrigation rain gauge, and a soil moisture probe with a sensor every 4 inches. These short range radio-data loggers report directly to the A753 long range radios, which in turn report the data to the base station at the farm. This graph shows data from a 24 inch ...
Over the past year in IRP, we have evaluated hundreds of companies and tested dozens in areas as diverse as grain quality and storage sensors, soil moisture probes and weather stations, drones and autonomous vehicles. ...
Water and nutrients are used most efficiently when your crops have access to the amount of water the crop needs and the soil can hold. This article describes how to use the data provided by soil moisture probes to more effectively manage your farm. ...
Areas of varying vigour become evident using our vigor maps, which are extremely accurate given that we account for factors like atmospheric conditions, solar angle and soil variations, so you can be sure you are collecting samples from homogenous areas. This information also becomes important for other vineyard management tools like the placement of soil ...
ByVineView
It is believed by some archeologists that the ancient Mesoamericans extracted water from clay confining layers for their crops. Soil moisture probes such as the HydraProbe are deployed in archeological sites to better understand the soil hydrology and to help us understand the day-to-day lives of our distant ancestors. ...
The calibration and validation of remotely sensed soil moisture products relies upon an accurate source of ground truth data. The primary method of providing this ground truth is to conduct intensive field campaigns with manual surface soil moisture sampling measurements, which utilize gravimetric sampling, soil ...
The ezWireless system includes infinite possibilities to add other high-speed plug-and-play data devices, such as video surveillance cameras, soil moisture probes and weather stations. IRZ Consulting, a Lindsay company, played a critical role in designing and engineering the overall irrigation delivery system at Dee River Ranch. ...
Rapid population growth and increasing urban demand reduce the availability of water for agriculture in Florida. The water-holding capacity of sandy soils in the Central Florida Ridge area is very poor (<0.10 m3 m–3). Improved soil water monitoring probes can help growers manage irrigation more efficiently and conserve water. This study evaluated a new soil water probe (ECH2O EC-5 sensor, Decagon ...