More tech advancements are coming to the irrigation side of agriculture. Leaders at Netafin say their new system gives farmers more control.
“You can monitor site-specific information, so the system will take that information, send it to the cloud and now you can analyze other things that may not be site-specific. So you might use crowd source weather data, find out what else is going on in the geography or maybe even something as interesting as looking at the cost of energy at a certain time of day, and it can overlay that information with an irrigation schedule and help you to understand. I should run my irrigation between 8:00 pm and 10:00 pm because the cost of the energy is lower,” said Mike Hemman.
Hemman says their software pulls from several areas including site-specific data, crowdsource information, and the company’s own expertise.
