Irrigation Training Series

Drip tape is an excellent way to water many plants because it prevents disease by minimizing water contact with the leaves, stems, and fruit of plants.

It allows rows between plants to remain dry improving access and reducing weed growth. It is a very efficient way to water and reduces the leaching of water and nutrients below the root zone.

However, choosing the right drip tape for your project can feel a bit overwhelming. During this webinar, Michael Pippen walks us through a step-by-step process that makes selecting the right drip tape for your crop easy.

In this training, you will learn:

Special Guest: Michael Pippen.

California’s farmers pump billions of gallons of water out of the state’s underground aquifers to make up for the water not delivered from surface water.

Due to the drought, the state is moving to stop it. Water measurement and water use reporting is a necessity for California agriculture.

During this webinar, you will learn how easy it is to respond to drought conditions and comply with SGMA requirements using Jain Logic Pulse.

We’ll discuss easy-to-implement strategies and the benefits of monitoring your irrigation pump and filter station to ensure they are performing optimally. Also, learn how monitoring these parameters and using alerts can save water and maintenance costs.

You won’t want to miss this webinar where we will be announcing the best special offer on our new Jain Logic Pulse bundles with the new Seametrics AG90 ultrasonic flow meter.

Special Guest: Jeff Tuel.

It would be remarkable to water every day when it was most beneficial to water. Still, life happens, and water managers are often asked to ensure water sprinklers are not watering during specific days and times. HOA meetings, municipal restrictions, outdoor weddings, and sports tournaments are just a few of the many reasons sprinklers can water at all times of the day.

In the past, water managers used block days to ensure no water runs during these critical activities. However, now with strong municipal restrictions, it is more difficult to water. For example, when a city tells us, we can’t water after 10 am. Using the block days feature, if we block a day, no watering will occur. The same issue is true if the restriction is before 10 am and after 6 pm. These drought restrictions make it harder to water.

Time restrictions, a new feature of Jain Unity, make watering during strict restrictions due to drought easy. A time restriction can span any period from 1 minute to days, months, or years. In addition, you’ll can easily configure and set any recurring restrictions, with or without an end date, of repeating events such as mowing day, site maintenance or inspection days, holidays, municipal restrictions, interval watering, and others throughout the season.

During this session, you will learn:

Where to find time restrictions in Unity

Special Guest: Daniel Martinez.

From Orange County and San Diego, through Oxnard and Santa Maria, and up to Watsonville, strawberries have been grown on the coast for years. For 2021 there are projected to be over 36,000 acres planted between the fall and summer seasons. This makes strawberries consistently one of the top 10 agricultural commodities grown in California.

Strawberries are irrigated in several ways. What you use to irrigate them, how you irrigate and when you irrigate all make a difference in the quality and yield of the strawberries you grow. In addition, new technology shows how proper irrigation improves pest management as well. This week we are taking a hard look at the best ways to irrigate strawberries with Frank Toves. You will leave the session knowing the steps you need to take to maximize your strawberry yields.

In this session, you will learn:

Special Guest: Frank Toves.

Water management services from Jain Irrigation leverages technology using data from satellite images, soil moisture monitoring, and weather forecasts to provide growers with irrigation scheduling and water use reporting. They also offer many other water management benefits (like distribution uniformity testing), giving growers an advantage to increase yields and decrease costs.

On Friday, we learn from the team providing water management services to growers about the steps they take to ensure growers use the appropriate amount of water and the benefits growers receive. This is a unique opportunity to learn about the best water management practices and technology available today.

During this session, you will learn:

Grower successes so far this year.

Special Guests: Connor Cunningham and Steven Soares.

Professional organizations offer networking, education, and career development opportunities to their members. The California Agricultural Irrigation Association offers this and a whole lot more. CAIA helps growers understand they need good irrigation systems and how those systems conserve water for California agriculture.

In addition, CAIA also provides advocates in Washington to educate lawmakers on water policy to better enable them to enact water legislation that’s positive for California agriculture. If water matters to you or your business you should be involved with CAIA.

During this webinar, Jim Lauria, Director, and Paul McFadden, Past President of CAIA will help us understand:

The replacement price of a mature tree can exceed $20,000, so you need to do everything you can to protect trees during a turf conversion. A large, mature shade tree is the most valuable asset of any landscape and provides many important benefits.

Trees reduce energy use by providing shade and evaporation cooling. They also add beauty, provide wildlife habitat, and sequester carbon. Not only is it smart to preserve these valuable trees, but it is the responsibility of adept owners and landscape professionals to protect these high-value assets.

During this session you will learn:

How to protect the tree’s root system during the conversion

Special Guest: Andy Belingheri.

Consumers are more intelligent today. As a result, they demand more information to understand the products they buy.

The Consumer Bill of Rights for Irrigation provides an excellent outline for understanding irrigation products. Consumers will use their dollars to express their trust and confidence in products and manufacturers.

As an industry, we should strive to set a high standard for our products and services. We need to take steps to self-regulate or be subject to additional regulations from lawmakers who know less about irrigation than we do. In addition, most of our work takes place with a high level of trust from individuals.

Most consumers don’t worry about the quality of their water. Instead, they trust the food we grow and the landscapes we water are done safely and cause them no harm.

This is the second part of a three part series, you can watch the first part here.

In this webinar we will discuss:

Jeff Klein, a Managing Partner for Jack Klein Farms, provides information on how Water Management Services work for him.

Jeff Klein is a fourth-generation Stockton farmer. He manages thousands of acres in California and understands the importance of great water management. Water management as a service changes the way growers are producing food and helps them adapt to variable field conditions. This week Jain Water Management Services customer Jeff Klein shares how he uses the service. The benefits he receives and his outlook on water management for growers.

In this webinar, you will learn:

Special Guests: Jeff Tuel and Steven Soares.

Better yields with less labor, pesticides, water, and fertilizer are just a few of the reasons growers today are considering substrate farming. As the AgTech world considers additional ways to grow more food with fewer inputs, substrate farming has moved up on the list. Especially for soft fruit producers and backyard growers, the way forward is growing in a substrate.

Please join Cassandra Toves from Irrigation Design and Construction Wednesday, June 16, to learn the unique opportunities and challenges growing in substrate offers. During this webinar, you will learn:

What is substrate farming