Pecan irrigation goes high-tech – WALB.com, Albany News, Weather, Sports

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Irrigation is a major expense for South Georgia farmers. It’s also somewhat of a guessing game, Figuring out how much to water where. That’s why high-tech wireless irrigation tools are growing in popularity on south Georgia farms.

The process of when to irrigate now as precise as the outer space satellites that control one piece of equipment. “There’s a satellite antennae right there,” said Al Wheaton, of Flow Tech & Wireless Remote Telemetry. “Just looking out here you don’t know how much moisture is in the ground for that tree to pour water from.”

The device he’s installed in this Lee County pecan grove is a McCrometer Wireless Irrigation & Crop manager. The McCrometer is not your granddad’s weather system. The bells and whistles on top collect weather data. And four feet in the ground is a tool monitoring soil moisture. That data is fed back to your tablet or mobile device.

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