Most farmers I talk to don’t need to be sold on automation. They’ve seen the controller boxes at the trade show. They’ve watched their neighbor check soil moisture from a phone. They get it. What they actually need is someone…
When a drip irrigation zone stops working, most farmers notice the plants first: drooping leaves, dry soil, stunted growth. By then, the damage is already done. A single dead zone on a 5-acre vegetable farm can cost $80 to $200…
Here’s something that bugs me every time I walk past a farm at 6 a.m. and hear sprinklers running: most of those systems are running blind. Timers. Same duration, same interval, every day, regardless of whether it rained three hours…
A farmer I work with in Kenya waters his two-acre vegetable plot with a battery-powered manual timer he bought for $18 three years ago. It has one knob and two buttons. He sets it once at the start of the…
