Are your sensitive fruit crops getting sufficient water? Here’s how to know.
Crophesy wireless soil moisture, temperature and salinity monitoring can ensure you are using every drop of water as efficiently as possible and keeping your crops healthy. Soil salinity is a hidden danger for deciduous fruits, nuts, citrus and avocados that can seriously impact crop health.
Are your crops using the water they receive?
Monitor water use and plant growth with intelligent below ground layer-by-layer active root zone technology that senses soil salinity and plant moisture uptake. Keeping an eye on salinity can prevent heavy contamination that can lead to loss of farmland and ensure salinity won’t inhibit uptake of water. As soils become more saline, plants and trees become unable to draw as much water from the soil. Salinity can come from irrigation water, incursion, or even runoff from other areas. Soil salinity can hamper crop water absorption so even if you are watering enough, the plant or tree can’t take in the available moisture.
How to use Ec as a proxy for how much salt is in the soil
While many growers monitor the leaves of their fruit trees for signs of stress, monitoring the soil around the active root zone can be an earlier indicator and provide a proactive way of managing the water intake of the plant. To save trips out to the orchard or field, using in-ground wireless sensor technology to monitor electrical conductivity or Ec is a useful proxy for how much salt is present in the soil. Pure water is a poor conductor of electricity whereas salty water is a good conductor. Salinity can vary by soil layer and different crops will be more sensitive to salinity at specific depths.
Crophesy makes monitoring soil moisture and salinity very easy
Crophesy by AquaSpy looks layer by layer every four inches into the soil and can see what’s occurring at the active root zone, no matter what type of soil you have. And you don’t have to program or install multiple sensors. This insight is critical for deep rooted trees which need to provide water where and when it’s needed most.
A single, integrated, wireless battery-powered probes measure soil moisture, salinity, temperature and root zone activity independently at 4-inch intervals all the way down to 48 inches. Proprietary algorithms give yield-optimizing insights for ideal irrigation at critical growth stages such as bud development that impact the outcome of fruit and nut tree yields. Teal eSIM technology means you can use the probes anywhere in the world. The powerful AgSpy system provides analysis and actionable insights so growers can easily understand what is going on without having to visit the orchard or farm, when saving time and resources are a top priority.
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