IRRIGATION RESOURCES

To be able to successfully perform an irrigation scheduling scheme, we need to combine "good sensors" with "science" and "experience". ...

We use a simple model called “soil water budget” to account for all the inputs and outputs and calculate soil water deficit (or soil ...

Remember, soil is like a bucket with limited capacity for holding water. To make sure it has the right amount of water in it we need to ...

The common checks we use to determine soil status may be to kick the dirt with our foot, excavate the rooting area with a shovel or push ...

About 20 years ago when I was a young undergraduate student, I started working on a project with the goal to develop the most accurate ...

A while ago, I wrote a short article centered around this question “do plant-based irrigation scheduling methods work?” I would like to ...

Blossom-End Rot on Tomatoes is something that most gardeners have perhaps experienced at some point, and is not a pleasant experience....

One of the main reasons why some of us put too much water on our plants is that we are afraid of yield loss. This is a legitimate fear...

The soil in your field is like a bucket (Fig. 1). It has a limited capacity for holding water (called soil water-holding capacity). If...

I would like to discuss how different factors determine how much water is available to plants and how they can affect irrigation ...

There is a long list of things to do and not to when it comes to soil moisture sensors. In this short article, I'm just going to mention ..

I have noticed a trend in recommending plant-based sensors or gadgets (e.g. dendrometers, stem micro-variation sensors) for irrigation ...

This is a brief educational article about what Evapotranspiration (ET) is, how it is measured, and how we could use it for Irrigation...

LoRaWAN (a vendor-managed solution; see part 1) is ideal for monitoring applications where sensors need to send data only a couple of...

This post discusses: Where and Why IoT fits into Agriculture Possible Road Blocks: Price, Range, Power, Infrastructure Studies show there...