irrigation timing News
-
WISKI Overview Video - Released
KISTERS is excited to announce the release of a new High Definition (HD) video on its YouTube channel KistersNA. The new video entitled "WISKI Overview" gives viewers a glimpse at the many applications of WISKI in the world of Hydrology. Our clients were eager to participate in the video and provided us with valuable insight and taped testimonials which are highlighted in the video. We wish to ...
By Kisters AG
-
The principle that gardens need irrigation
1. Irrigation principle The amount of irrigation, the number of irrigation times and the time should be determined according to the water demand characteristics, growth stage, climate and soil conditions of medicinal plants, and timely, appropriate and reasonable irrigation. 2. The types of irrigation mainly include irrigation before planting, seedling irrigation, growth and irrigation, and ...
-
Irrigate for Profit
Smart irrigation, synchronized fertilizer control, flow rate monitoring At Vinduino, every day is smart irrigation day. We help farmers irrigate for profit: improve crop results and water efficiency, while saving labor. The Vinduino wireless irrigation controller can uniquely operate a fertilizer pump, multiple irrigation valves, and track flow rate per irrigation block. The system works with ...
By Vinduino LLC
-
Free Irrigation Assessment Now Available from WaterBit
How Efficient Are Your Irrigation Practices? Find Out With Our Free Irrigation Assessment We’ve developed an Irrigation Assessment that takes into consideration the crops you grow, your farm’s terrain and soil types, your current water and energy usage, and your growing practices to develop a detailed Irrigation Assessment report. You’ll learn: How much time irrigation ...
By Farm(x)
-
2022 AlmondBeat Report #2 - 4 irrigation tips to prepare for the heat
Temperatures are swinging from high to low, rain fall sporadically and unexpectedly - The only thing that hasn't changed during the last couple of weeks in the Central Valley - is that everything is changing. And with water scarcity, increased input costs and regulations affecting irrigation decisions (CNN reports that the state's two largest reservoirs — Shasta Lake and Lake Oroville - ...
By Phytech
-
Save labor: Fertilizer and Irrigation Automation
Vinduino 5th generation wireless irrigation systems support automated fertilizer injection and pump control. With the eVineyard and eOrchard software you can automatically optimize variable rate irrigation to improve crop results and save resources & labor. While automatically adjusting to evapotranspiration on a day-by-day basis, irrigation and fertilizer timing is controlled with ...
By Vinduino LLC
-
New Feedbank Release: Italian Feedbank
AMTS.Cattle.Pro has released a new Feedbank for program use. As Sam indicated in his blog, AMTS is working with our distributors and users around the globe to develop regional feedbanks that have more accurate characterizations of local feed to improve diet formulation. Given the importance of accurate expression of feed traits for best modeling (see Sam’s The Nutritionist talk from June ...
-
IA celebrates efficient irrigation during July’s Smart Irrigation Month
The Irrigation Association is excited to announce that July 2020 has once again been designated as Smart Irrigation Month. This month-long initiative is an opportunity for the irrigation industry to promote the importance and value of smart irrigation practices. The benefits of smart irrigation are all around us — in the food we eat, the fresh air we breathe and the yards and green spaces ...
-
Sensor-based Irrigation Systems Show Potential to Increase Greenhouse Profitability
Wireless sensor-based irrigation systems can offer significant benefits to greenhouse operators. Advances in sensor technology and increased understanding of plant physiology have made it possible for greenhouse growers to use water content sensors to accurately determine irrigation timing and application rates in soilless substrates. The wireless sensor systems provide more accurate measurements ...
-
ClimaCell Collaborate with Ag-Tech Startup SupPlant
We are proud to announce a new collaboration with ClimaCell Inc., a leading weather intelligence platform. Israeli Ag-Tech startup SupPlant, which develops data-driven autonomous irrigation systems, has signed a preliminary agreement with weather prediction giant ClimaCell to bring smart irrigation systems to small-scale farmers around the world. ClimaCell is a weather intelligence platform ...
By SupPlant
-
Constellation Energy and PureSense Environmental Partner to Provide Automated Load Response Services to Growers
Constellation Energy (NYSE: CEG) today announced an agreement with PureSense Environmental, Inc. to provide automated load response programs to customers of PureSense Environmental’s energy response program, PureSenseESP. The relationship will provide the real-time irrigation management company the opportunity to offer their growers Constellation Energy’s innovative load response ...
-
How container-grown plants capture sprinkler irrigation water
As the container nursery industry faces severe restrictions on water use, researchers are looking to identify ways to minimize watering needs and eliminate excess watering. The authors of a new study say that understanding container-grown plants' capacity to "capture" sprinkler irrigation water can give growers important tools that help them adjust irrigation rates, reduce water use, and produce ...
-
HydroPoint Data Systems, Inc. Unveils New WeatherTRAK Smart Water Management Solutions
HydroPoint Data Systems, Inc., the proven leader in Smart Water Management Solutions, today announced the release of three new industry-leading WeatherTRAK products designed to extend the company’s comprehensive offering of smart irrigation and central control products in 2012. WeatherTRAK continues to deliver the most cost-effective and easy-to-use ...
-
Australia completes historic purchase of water for the environment
The Rudd Government today completed the single largest purchase of water for the environment in Australia's history. The Government is buying almost 240 gigalitres of water entitlements for $303 million from Twynam Agricultural Group. That is equivalent to one half of all of the water used in Sydney each year. The water purchased today will be used to restore the rivers and wetlands of the ...
-
Record-breaking $17.3 billion in crop losses last year; significant portion potentially avoidable
Report shows county-by-county analysis of impacts in the ten states with highest crop insurance losses due to extreme weather: Extreme weather forced the Federal Crop Insurance Program (FCIP) to pay out a record-breaking $17.3 billion in crop losses last year, much of which could have been prevented using water-smart strategies, according to the Natural Resources Defense Council. Payments made ...
-
Soil compaction, the invisible threat to agriculture.
Subsurface densification of the soil occurs when the load-bearing strength of the soil is exceeded. In the layer just beneath the plough, densification can occur; this plough sole begins at a depth of about 30 cm. Over time, the soil will lose its structure and its pore will disappear. This threat might be invisible from the surface, but it can be measured! Disrupting water management In case ...
-
Plastic-Puglia: Watering your crops while saving resources
In summer, keeping a vegetable garden well watered means keeping an open tap like you haven’t seen since your last kegger in college. When the little rainfall in winter can make it seem like summer year-round, our finite resource such as water becomes ever more precious, in spite of the few rainstorms that did pass through in winter. Since the last few years, world has become ...
-
Management Strategies to Reduce Catfacing in Peaches
For producers of peaches and other orchard-grown produce, managing the orchard floor can present challenges. Unwelcome vegetation on the orchard floor competes with trees for water and nutrients reducing tree growth and productivity, and can be a host for pathogens and insect pests. Utilizing best practices for irrigation and vegetation management in the orchard helps growers to optimize tree ...
-
UF/IFAS avocado irrigation app should save money, water
Avocado growers now know that a University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences mobile irrigation app works well to save money while maintaining crop yields. This data, reported in a new study, is critical for an industry that has a $100 million a year economic impact on Florida. It’s also important because agriculture uses about 70 percent of the world’s water, the ...
-
The Dorchester of Palm Beach Slashes Water Bill by 12% With WeatherTRAK Smart Water Management Solutions
HydroPoint Data Systems, Inc. announced today that The Dorchester condominium association in the Town of Palm Beach, Florida saved 1.1 million gallons of water after implementing WeatherTRAK® Smart Water Management Solutions in early 2011 to deflect continuous rate hikes and new water use restrictions while optimizing landscape health and financial ...
Need help finding the right suppliers? Try XPRT Sourcing. Let the XPRTs do the work for you