The Scoop Podcast: Maximizing The Value of Irrigation
Consulting with farmers across 40 crops, Cory Broad and the team at Avid Water help bring agronomic solutions to the field including system automation, moisture monitoring, satellite imaging, water treatment systems and more.
Avid Water has 15 location spread across California and helps farmers with everything from the pump to the sprinkler.
With $20/hour minimum wage and the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act, Broad shares how irrigation technologies can help farmers answer these challenges.
“When we think about how can we continue to farm, our major labor intensive crops, we have to have automation,” Broad says. “I’ve seen automation specifically for us in irrigation, include the ability to reliably turn pumps off and on, open and close valves, switch irrigation sets, remotely and predetermined.”
