Grow Your Business with Pay as You Grow by AquaSpy
Dealers, help your customers conserve water and inputs, optimize crop yields, and enhance farm profitability, while you build yourself a recurring revenue stream with a unique Pay as You Grow program that’s just like a cell phone plan. There are no up-front investments required and no need to manage inventory or billing. We’ve literally cut the wires to make installation a breeze.
With today’s water shortages, understanding and tuning into crop water needs throughout the season requires constant attention. Intelligent crop-sensing technology with underground root and soil sensors has been around for some years, but installation costs and hardware equipment were expensive and time-consuming.
Today, soil sensors have become smaller, lighter and easier to install, taking advantage of long-lasting battery and mobile technology to make them farm-tough and more reliable. Add to that to years of crop and soil intelligence that AquaSpy has gathered over more than a decade gives insight into specific crop’s water and nutrient patterns and needs that deliver results.
This latest tool is the Crophesy app from AquaSpy. Farmers can use the mobile app on their smartphones to remotely monitor crop health – anything from row crops to vegetables to fruit and nut trees. The Pay as You Grow solution allows users to see daily stats on soil moisture, density, temperature, salinity and water consumption – without stepping foot in their fields.
To use the app, farmers install a rugged, three-, six- or twelve sensor, wireless soil probe that is included with each subscription. It’s water-tight and weather-proof and can be quickly and easily pushed into any soil type. With a minimum five-year battery life, and included cellular plan, it will last multiple seasons without fail. And it logs data at every four inches in the active root zone.
Crophesy’s probe sensors independently send out electrical signals through the layers of soil at the different sensor marks. Then, it uses AgSpy intelligent algorithms to turn those signal readings into actionable metrics and graphs through a Yield Efficiency Score (YES!). The YES! Score adjusts hourly, telling the farmer what the plant roots need to optimize stalk and fruit potential in a particular layer of soil.
Each crop type has its own specific needs, guiding the farmer for more precise use of water.
Farmers find that using soil moisture sensors compared to watering how they normally would, saves them time, water and nutrients while it improves crop health and yield quality. This is because they learn that some vegetables have completely opposite needs, so watering them the same way would be unproductive. When every drop counts, tuning into specifics for optimized application is critical.
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