Irrigation Training Series

Spring is just around the corner and you still have time to get your trees ready for the growing season.  The steps you take today toward improving the health of your trees will pay off tremendously in the Spring and Summer.

In this Training Series episode Dennis Swartzell, principal of Horticulture Consultants Incorporated, a consulting firm founded in 1979 that specializes in diagnostics and troubleshooting, landscape assessments, tree inventories, preservation, and management programs will step us through some basic steps to take with your trees to ensure a successful growing season.

It’s important to select the right tubing, tape, or emitter line size for your application to ensure your drip irrigation system delivers the right amount of water to your plants. Careful consideration of factors such as flow rate, water pressure, and emitter spacing helps ensure your system is designed for optimal performance.

Cory Broad, Irrigation Association Certification Board Member, steps through a process that can help you make the right choice for what you need.

Cities in Florida have been mandated to eliminate all surface wastewater storage by the year 2032. Tampa, for example, currently produces 50 million gallons of reclaimed water a day. And it’s wastewater that’s all being dumped into the beautiful Hillsborough Bay, which is not an ideal means of disposal.

In this JAIN Irrigation Training Series episode Florida-based irrigation specialist Michael Derewenko will provide background and details on this water infrastructure challenge Tampa is facing, along with the recommendations for solutions that have been proposed by industry leading experts.

During this session, you will learn the following:

Beyond Tampa, this will soon be a common municipal water management issue for cities and their populations throughout the South, as well as across the entire U.S.

Your landscape holds millions of living organisms in the soil, and after clean water mixes with the soil, you do not want that water getting back into the drinking water system. Backflow preventers are the insurance policy to stop this from happening. Use is mandatory, and water managers need to understand the basics of backflow preventers to keep our water systems safe.

In this episode of the JAIN Irrigation Training Series, Daniel Martinez will teach the basics of backflow prevention.

World Ag Expo® is the largest annual outdoor agricultural exposition, with over 1,200 exhibitors and an attendance of more than 100,000 each year. It is held at the International Agri-Center® in Tulare, California, in the United States, starting on the second Tuesday of February. The U.S. Department of Commerce has officially designated it as an affiliate of the Foreign Buyer Program, which encourages exporting American-made goods. Before its 2001 rename, the event was called the California Farm Equipment Show and International Exposition.

This year it starts on February 14 and finishes on the 16th. This year’s event includes – educational seminars, a new product contest, demonstrations, ag tours, and hundreds of exhibitors of the latest and greatest products for agriculture. There is so much to see. However, it would help if you had a solid strategy before attending to maximize the benefits of the Expo.

Our guest on this episode of the Jain Irrigation Training Series is Jennifer Fawkes, the Marketing Manager at the International Agri-Center®. Jennifer has been associated with the World Ag Expo® for many years and will guide us on the best way to take advantage of all there is to enjoy at the Expo.

To stay ahead in the Ag irrigation industry, it’s crucial to have a deep understanding of broader trends like supply chain improvements, agricultural demand, resin prices, input costs for farming, and what’s next for the industry concerning technology. Despite an ever-changing landscape and economic concerns, there’s still an excellent opportunity to expand market share and bring in new customers—for those who understand the evolving demands of ag customers.

This week my guest Aric Olson, President of JAIN, will step us through what to expect for the irrigation industry in 2023 and key indicators to monitor to ensure success.

Aric Olson, the president of Jain Irrigation, Inc., is a thought leader, frequent speaker, and panelist for domestic agriculture and water issues. He has a B.S. in Chemical Engineering and an M.B.A. to go along with twenty-plus years of manufacturing company experience in which he held responsibilities for manufacturing, distribution, engineering, sales & marketing, and human resources.

Aric is passionate about helping growers utilize leading commercialized technologies and data science to grow our food sustainably. He has been a member of Jain Irrigation’s management team responsible for successfully integrating eight major acquisitions into the world’s leading global irrigation technology company in the last ten years.

An indoor cannabis growing facility can be highly profitable but has several hurdles and obstacles. Water is essential for plant growth and managing your irrigation correctly makes a big difference in profit. Water for indoor growers means fertigation, so the process becomes a little more complex.

Taking time to design and install your irrigation system properly will also save you time and money down the road. In this episode of the JAIN Irrigation Training Series we'll closely examine how to effectively design indoor cannabis irrigation.

The days are getting longer and now is the perfect time for investing in your landscape to ensure you are ready for spring and summer. Irrigation is one of many items that can be worked on during the winter in your landscape. There are a host of other items to attend to as well.

DJ Caldwell will step us through the items in our landscapes we should focus on now to ensure a beautiful landscape for the rest of the year.

By the time you receive your water bill, it’s too late to adjust irrigation schedules to save water and money.

However, today in JAIN Unity, subscribers can view the cost of their water daily or on-demand.  They can quickly see how much each irrigation event costs daily, monthly, and annually. And the specific details on the cost of water broken down to the individual irrigation zone, too.

This feature brings a new level to water costs awareness and visibility to irrigation efficiency for maintaining landscape health. Answering the two main questions of landscape irrigation: “How much water does my lawn (or other landscape plant life) need and what is that costing me?”

Unity now provides critical cost analysis needed to battle the overuse of water in urban areas. Mike Palumbo will help us understand how to access and use this information for better water management.

Jain Irrigation has acquired the assets of SWIIM. These assets include the leading water management IP/technology portfolio and know-how, specific field hardware for water management services, access to new markets and customers, and current contracts for OnFarm Water Accounting.

These assets will be merged with the leading agricultural technology, Jain Logic. What is in store for customers and the industry now that Jain Irrigation acquired the assets of SWIIM?