Regulatory compliance
The food industry is facing tighter regulations and it is increasingly more difficult to run a farming operation. New groundwater regulations have been placed in California.
PumpMonitor™ is a simple solution that tracks and reports water use with local agencies. Growers and agencies save 50% to 80% on implementation costs because we leverage existing SmartMeters. There is no hardware to install, and we integrate other telemetry stations to track the groundwater table (groundwater recharge) and provide 100% visibility in what is happening in the basin.
“This is excellent news that will provide all growers with a low-cost, accurate way to measure their water use and provide water accounting for SGMA (Sustainable Groundwater Management Act) purposes,” said Don Cameron of Terranova Ranch. Terranova Ranch pioneered on-farm groundwater recharge to make groundwater basins sustainable.
Resource efficiency
Our data mining platform was tested on over 20,000 acres of farmed land between 2015 and 2019. We worked with UC Davis and UC Santa Barbara to understand the impact on energy efficiency and water use efficiency.
CropMonitor achieved an increase of 11% in water use efficiency (ratio of crop yield divided by water application) across alfalfa, almond, tomato, etc. There was also an improvement fertilizer use efficiency by 14%. The total savings in energy was 13% compared to existing pump efficiency programs and ET irrigation schedules.” You can read below the full report to the California Energy Commission.
Watch the testimonial from the Bowles Farming team and learn how they use AgMonitor to help them map, measure and optimize their farming operation … their President Cannon explains how it is critical to be a good steward of farmland to last across six generations.
Increased profits
Growers who implemented our RanchMonitor™ and CropMonitor™ products, consistently achieve better production quantity and quality by identifying early on where they can recover revenue losses on the field, and reduction on utility bills. On average, farms see an increase in profits of $200 per acre. This was the case during our three-year trials for mature orchards and row crops that are rotated within a ranch.
AgIS Capital deployed the programs across their portfolio of properties: “With the improvements in precision of irrigation and other inputs, our clients’ farms can continue to improve their yield performance while reducing input costs. This junction of environmental, efficiency and performance improvement is exactly what sustainable farming is about. Higher food production per unit of inputs, while being responsible for our impacts to the environment (water precision) and to communities (demand on the energy grid).” stated Carl Evers, President of Operations at AgIS Capital. You can read the customer testimonial below.
Customer testimonial across the entire operation at Bowles Farming
