Hortau’s Crop Stress Management Soil Tension Monitoring Systems

Hortau is considered an industry leader that provides state-of-the-art irrigation solutions and great soil management to increase production in the agricultural sector.

San Luis Obispo, United States - June 15, 2018 /PressCable/ —

Since 2002, Hortau’s services have been proven to drastically improve agricultural production while reducing water and energy use, and the leaching of valuable nutrients with the use of an advanced and state-of-the-art irrigation system management. Hortau’s patented irrigation management, automation, and weather monitoring solutions, in addition to their best weather monitoring station, help a lot of growers in managing irrigation scheduling and handle crop stress real-time using soil tension, ensuring optimal production while reducing water use, energy consumption, and nutrient loss.

By combining real-time soil tension sensor data with a simple-to-use mobile platform, growers are now able to anticipate the water needs of their crops and properly manage irrigation accordingly. Hortau’s irrigation management scheduling ensures that photosynthesis and transpiration happen at maximum levels from sun up to sun down. This means that there is enough available water to meet the crops water demands, even during a heat spell, with a full crop.

What is the result? It is greater yield. Hortau’s Irrigation Management service covers an entire operation with the most accurate, reliable, and dependable real-time field monitoring stations on the market and is ideal for all crop and irrigation types.

For qualified Central Valley growers, Hortau offers a scheduling service that covers their entire operation and gives growers a boots-on-the-ground. An Irrigation Management Advisor will evaluate each irrigation set and install soil tension monitoring stations in a representative area, taking into account crop variety, soil type, and topography. Irrigation Management Advisors provide weekly schedules based on our proprietary soil tension sensors.

Hortau’s weather monitoring service covers an entire operation and sends alerts by phone, text or email, to report real-time data, ability to remotely controlled pumps and valves, and fully automate the system based on soil tension readings. With a mobile and automated platform, growers are able to do custom programming and flow-meter monitoring, in addition to monitoring and providing a real-time report on water levels as well as receive alerts in real-time for static, drawdown, and recovery states. Document flow is also real-time, and so as being capable of setting up alerts and remain SGMA & SB-88 compliant at the same time. Data output is in: acre/feet total output, gallons per minute and inches applied.

CLOUD-BASED IRRIGATION MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE Hortau’s easy-to-use software puts the user first, simplifying key metrics, and clearly identifying the optimal growing environment for specific crop. Now, it is possible to achieve short-term and long-term goals when it comes to cultivating various crops in an entire growing season with more confidence and peace of mind.

With U.S. operations based in San Luis Obispo, California, Hortau’s has offices, representatives, and technicians throughout North America, including a Canadian headquarters in Lévis, Québec. It is time to embrace change and innovation. Modern science and technology have provided people with so many things, and when it comes to increased crop production, Hortau’s is the best company to rely on. It is time to set crop cultivation and business at a higher level by investing in trusted, reliable, and effective irrigation system and other agricultural solutions offered by Hortau.

Contact Info:
Name: CHRISTIAN PLANTE
Email: [email protected]
Organization: HORTAU
Address: 3485 Sacramento Drive, Suite B, San Luis Obispo, CA 93401, United States
Phone: +1-805-545-5994

For more information, please visit https://hortau.com/

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