Archive for September 2002

Growers look to Internet for crops’ soil moisture requirements

By Rachel Alexander
Growers in the Lower Rio Grande Valley are looking to the Internet for charts and graphs that detail the soil moisture in their own fields. And, they’re using this information to schedule irrigations.
Watermark sensors in growers’ fields collect soil moisture data, which is used with rainfall and irrigation levels to [...]

September 18th, 2002 | Posted in RGBI