Industry insights


At the recent World Ag Expo in Tulare, California, Irrigation Today caught up with a few irrigation indus following question:


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“For me, the biggest change will be the way we monitor — the information that we are looking at, where we are looking at it, why we are looking at it and how we are looking at it. So, are we using moisture monitoring or are we doing old-school hand methods? Are we going incredibly into telemetry and remote data access? I think those are going to be the biggest changes probably over the next 10 years.”


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JACOB MORENO | IRROMETER COMPANY INC.


“It will be evolving, but more importantly, the adoption will continue to increase because of a) the scarcity of water, and b) when we deliver water right, not only will we get more consistent yield and quality, but the nutrient management program works so much better in the soil, and when we irrigate more effectively we have less disease pressure. So, when we do


the right things right with water, the crop is much happier. e future looks really bright!” MIKE THUROW | SPECTRUM TECHNOLOGIES INC.


“Sensor capacity — soil moisture sensing, field monitoring, mechanized irrigation, drip systems getting away from flood irrigation, gated pipe irrigation, moving to more modern technologies, and taking technologies from the turf industry that have been around for a number of years (including Wi-Fi, remote monitoring, remote application) and applying


those to ag irrigation.” JOHN JOHNSTON | SENNINGER


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