Irrigation Training Series

Agrotourism is gaining popularity because several producers are successfully increasing profits by implementing agrotourism processes on their ranches.

By combining agriculture and tourism, agritourism offers new revenue sources and satisfies the heightened interest in food in the US today.

The benefits are many to both consumers and growers. We see more producers participating daily with on-farm farmer’s markets, garden tours, rural bed and breakfasts, demonstration farms, and U pick operations, to name a few.

Educating the public about where their food comes from is important to agriculture and irrigation. Each day water becomes more critical to agriculture, and understanding irrigation will be essential.

In this session, you will learn:

We look forward to seeing you on Friday.

Current drought conditions are worsening, so now more than ever, there is a need to save water in landscapes.

Making some simple, inexpensive changes to improve the way you water your landscape will save water and save money too.

These steps do not take a lot of time or money and are proven winners.

During our webinar, you will learn five simple steps that pay you back with a lower water bill and a healthier-looking landscape.

Drought is hitting the West hard this year, and you need to know what you can do about it.

In this webinar, you will learn about the most common Ag Tech hardware used in the field by growers to help combat the challenges of drought conditions.

We’ve generated a lot of content on our industry-leading Jain Logic software. This webinar focuses on the critical components in the field that will help growers more effectively use every drop of irrigation water.

From soil moisture to excessive filter flushing to identifying possible system leaks, we’ll explore the sensors and devices to help you monitor your water use.

This webinar provides a basic understanding of soil moisture monitoring components like soil moisture meters, flow monitors, communications devices, and leak detection.

Everyday you read about ransomware attacks on websites and breathe a sigh of relief it wasn’t you and then hope it doesn’t happen to you. Hope is not a plan and this webinar will help you take the steps you need to take to make sure you have a plan and are not a victim.

From seed sellers to supermarket shoppers, hackers are targeting the Agriculture Industry and supply chain.

There’s a perfect storm brewing over the last several years. Ag-related business have evolved their technologies to a point where IT systems are a critical part of daily operations and communications, but security controls typically have not kept pace.

With the rise in Smart Farms, IoT machinery/sensors, and cryptocurrency, overseas criminals significantly increased cyber-attacks with ransomware, holding data hostage or deleting, and other attacks such as Business Email Compromise and Impersonation. We’ll share the risks, what you need to know, and what you can do today.

Some items we will cover:

Hacking Farm to Table

Run time reports, measured water usage, estimated water use, and alerts help troubleshoot issues with an irrigation system. Just as important is how you use these reports to strengthen relationships with your customers.

You can manage what you measure, and most water users do not measure their water use. During this session, you will learn how to measure water use and, more importantly the best ways to share this with your customers. Another added benefit of reporting is that it drives internal efficiencies within your company too.

In this webinar, we’ll show you how Jain Unity Reports:

Provides information that highlights your effectiveness as a water manager

Special Guest: Gregg Black.

Water Management As A Service is changing the way growers in the United States are producing food and helping them adapt to variable field conditions.

The Water Management Team at Jain Irrigation is helping growers have their most successful season ever, and Aric Olson, President of Jain Irrigation USA will share with us the steps the team has taken this year to date and what to expect in the coming months.

Jain’s water management service helps growers Observe, Analyze and Act on plant responses using high resolution satellite imaging while monitoring soil moisture conditions, weather and field irrigation events.

Technology makes it easier to manage water than ever before, and many growers are taking advantage of third-party water management services to increase yields and reduce costs.

During this webinar, you will learn:

What type of water management services were provided to growers in March and April

Special Guest: Aric Olson.

Homeowners, HOAs, and commercial property managers are installing smart controllers at a rapid rate. Their overall satisfaction with smart controllers influences their desire to keep conserving water.

Dr. Dukes and his team analyzed two decades of smart irrigation controller use in the United States and reached some valuable conclusions he will share with us on Friday, May 14. Understanding how consumers interact and use smart controllers. We will discuss:

Do smart controllers save water

A user’s ability to see and understand their water usage outdoors engages them directly in its conservation while also contributing to more significant water resource savings for our communities and affordability.

The soil moisture balance page in Jain Unity shows users daily ET, how much moisture is in the soil (for every station).

In this session you will learn:

Where to locate the soil moisture information and how it works?

Special Guest: DJ Caldwell.

Consumers are more intelligent today. 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. They trust the food we grow and the landscapes we water are done safely and cause them no harm.

This first of a three-part series will look at the ITRC’s Irrigation Consumer Bill of Rights “General” document that covers all types of irrigation systems and the consumers purchasing them. We will break down the four key sections of the document:

Designer Qualifications

Special Guest: Cory Broad.

Setting up a new outdoor grow site for hemp and cannabis has its fair share of challenges, and each can be very costly if not taken into account before breaking ground.

In this webinar, we’ll cover primary challenges seen when visiting sites preparing to grow hemp and cannabis outdoors.

Here are some topics we will cover, that you may encounter while growing hemp or cannabis outdoors:

Will I grow in pots or in the ground:

Special Guest: Michael Derewenko.