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In order to provide the plant with an even more targeted watering, Delphy has set up trials at two companies in which irrigating crops based on data is central.

SupPlant’s technology aims to address the impact of global warming worldwide on smallholder farmers and is designed for the world’s 450 million small growers, as 76 percent of farmers grow crops on ...

In order to guarantee high-quality standards of the Potato of Bologna PDO, all of us producers are carefully monitoring the irrigation

Crop4Sight recently announced the release of its easy to use potato irrigation-scheduling tool. The new tool uses a state-of-the-art potato specific water balance model. The tool delivers convenient irrigation schedules whenever a ...

The Irrigation Association (IA) announces that July 2021 has once again been designated as Smart Irrigation Month

From water management methods to research project results, our resources will help you to decide when and how to irrigate.   Why do we irrigate? Water is applied to potato crops to ...

There is significant opportunity for growers to increase farm profits and conserve water by quickly detecting and correcting common drip irrigation issues like plugs, leaks and pressure issues.

Coming back to the Skagit Valley, there are so many problems we can solve here to make people’s lives better,

A new University of Illinois-led study identifies obstacles and solutions to improve performance and adoption of irrigation decision support tools at the field scale. Where some fields are equipped with soil moisure ...

On March 31st, the R&D director of Udapa Ana Carrasco and Jon Legorburu, the cooperative's agricultural technical engineer, participated in the webinar “Innovating in potato irrigation using precision tools”, where the results obtained were ...

released a study quantifying the extent and impact of drip irrigation issues in agriculture.

Valley Irrigation has acquired PivoTrac, an ag tech company based in the Texas Panhandle. PivoTrac offers solutions focused on remote monitoring of center pivot irrigation machines. “We are proud to welcome PivoTrac customers to ...

Applying polyacrylamide (PAM) to the soil can improve infiltration and reduce soil erosion.

Today many producers make use of technology to monitor everything related to the use of irrigation in their lots and not to produce blindly

With the exception of potatoes or soya, the cost of an irrigation system, including technology and pipes, is far from worthwhile in every common arable culture. Tests from several years have shown this. ...

vegetable growers to monitor their soil moisture conditions to inform irrigation management

experimental fields with irrigation yielded 3000 kilos of extra starch per hectare

The University of California at Berkeley will use a field robot this year to investigate the water content of crop leaves in the field and the optimal time for sprinkling or irrigation. ...

The Minister of Agriculture of the Region of Murcia, Antonio Luengo , visited the 'El Mirador' Agricultural Demonstration and Transfer Center this Monday, where he learned about advances in the use of water retaining polymers and ...

Even if irrigation appears to be necessary for plant cultivation, it is only economical if prices are high. Economic success in arable farming depends directly on rainfall. Two years of drought in a ...

Potato cultivation takes place mainly in the South Central of Chile (VIII to X regions) in dry conditions (without irrigation) during the spring-summer season (November-March). The crop has a high yield potential (100-120 ...

Drip systems are sensitive and more prone to damage than overhead irrigation. Rodents, weed cutters, laborers, mechanical harvesting equipment and even the sun can damage drip systems. Overhead irrigation systems use PVC ...

More drought and heat will require more and more irrigation in the future. In Germany, more than 2 million hectares of arable land could also be irrigated, with around 12 million hectares of ...

Irrigation systems are vital for crop germination and are frequently used to distribute fertilizers or chemicals. In colder climates, overhead systems are also used for frost protection. Both drip and overhead irrigation ...

Is overhead irrigation a system of the past? We certainly don’t think so! Drip irrigation systems may be highly efficient in water use, but new overhead sprinklers are almost as water and ...