Soil moisture monitoring technology has helped dairy farmer and irrigation advocate Mark Slee stop wasting water and has saved him thousands in power bills. To make sure only the water needed is applied, each of the five centre pivots has an Aquaflex soil moisture sensor in the ground beneath it.
DairyNZLtd. Published on Oct 5, 2011
Cuts to the supply of irrigation water are no longer a problem on Tim O'Sullivan's family's farm, thanks to a storage pond that holds enough water for up to six weeks of irrigation.The $1.4 million storage pond is gravity fed from the river. It's filled when river flows are high, so when the summer dry comes and the supply is shut off, the stored water is used for irrigation
DairyNZLtd. Published on Oct 5, 2011
Canterbury sharemilker Scott Searle is using half as much water but growing more grass by running his roto-rainer travelling irrigators at double speed. As well as tweaking the way his roto-rainers run, Scott has gone one step further with Aquaflex soil moisture monitoring.
DairyNZLtd. Published on Oct 5, 2011
