From the comfort of your home, you can use your laptop to remotely monitor and control all the Lindsay irrigation products. Photo / Supplied
From the comfort of your home, you can use your laptop to remotely monitor and control all the Lindsay irrigation products. Photo / Supplied
With the ever-increasing pressure on the agricultural industry from environmental groups and the Government to mitigate its often exaggerated effect on the environment, it is essential that farmers continue to work towards limiting nutrient leaching from their farms.
Farmers with irrigation receive more criticism as this is seen as themost serious of evils, but irrigation when used with precision can be beneficial to the environment — good pasture or crop growth uses up available water and nutrients and limits runoff in times of drought.
Using precision technology on irrigators not only provides these benefits but also greatly reduces the amount of water used to grow good pasture or crops. Irrigators using Growsmart Precision VRI experience water savings of between 25per cent and 30per cent, reducing electricity and giving the other benefits of being able to turn off irrigation over and around pivot ruts, tracks, water troughs, gateways, drains and any boggy areas.
Growsmart Precision VRI has been supplying these benefits for 10 years now with the original systems still working perfectly and producing world record crops for their farmers with technology that leads in this area and is continually updated to provide the farmer with ease of use and the required reporting for the environmental regulators.
A new innovation enables farmers to create irrigation plans to apply effluent, fertigation and/or chemigation to specific areas under an irrigator. This lets farmers target resources to maximise yields, ensuring efficient use of inputs such as water and nutrients, yet still preventing leaching and run-off.
Couple this with FieldNet, which is the platform that remotely monitors and controls all the Lindsay irrigation products from your mobile or laptop.
The newest addition to this technology is FieldNET Advisor — a revolutionary management solution designed to provide simple science-based irrigation recommendations enabling faster, better-informed irrigation management decisions.
This innovative solution combines more than 40 years of crop and irrigation research into FieldNET's proven technology platform, leveraging massive amounts of data, cloud computing capabilities and machine learning to deliver one easy-to-use tool.
No need to manually track growth or make complex calculations to ascertain the daily water usage with the frustration of using multiple unintegrated tools to track water needs and manage equipment.
Growsmart Precision VRI can be installed on new irrigation systems or as an add-on to existing systems. For more information, contact your local Growsmart by Lindsay dealer or visit www.growsmartvri.com
