Articles about Pressure Regulation for agricultural irrigation
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…
If your irrigation pump cycles on and off every time someone opens a valve, you’re burning through electricity and killing the motor. A pressure tank stops that. It stores pressurized water so the pump doesn’t have to run for every…
I spent a morning last summer watching a neighbor’s orchard sprinklers throw water onto a gravel access road. He’d swapped in whatever nozzles the local supplier had in stock. Half of them were running at pressures they weren’t designed for.…
A small leak in a drip irrigation system is easy to ignore. You walk past a damp patch of soil, maybe notice a faint hissing sound, and tell yourself you’ll get to it next week. I’ve done it. Most farmers…
I’ve lost count of how many farmers have told me the same story: they spent good money on drip tape and mainline tubing, laid everything out perfectly, turned on the water. Half their fittings popped off within the first hour.…
Water costs are climbing. In parts of California, growers saw irrigation district rates jump 40% between 2020 and 2024. In southern Europe, drought restrictions are no longer exceptional — they’re the new normal. And in sub-Saharan Africa, farmers who depend…
