SWIIM has secured new clients in Imperial, CA these past few weeks and they all get to benefit from the latest version of the SWIIM headgate monitoring device, a low-height, more compressed solution. Those that are interested in monitoring their delivery and consumption, whether they receive their water through open channel or pipe, should contact [...]
DID YOU KNOW that the SWIIM/OnFarm dashboard connects with 50 different data partners, including its preferred vendors. Anything agronomic, SWIIM has a partner for that! This in addition to our delivery, weather and satellite data sources. The dashboard is "data agnostic," meaning if it communicates with the internet, we can likely capture it. Meaning all [...]
SWIIM has secured new clients - the latest outside of Fresno, and in Kern County these past few weeks. They are interested in the management and protection SWIIM can provide to their legacy growing operations - and SWIIM backs its data, which means we back your water use into the future. [...]
SWIIM continues deployments through Southern California - the latest activity in Blythe and Imperial, helping grower understand, manage and protect their water allocations with a precision not previously available. Here, the SWIIM team is checking calibration of a flow measurement device under water located in Palo Verde Irrigation District which sends data every 15 seconds [...]
Day 2 of the Forbes AgTech Summit 2019 is underway in downtown Salinas, CA. Highlights yesterday included a keynote by Steve Forbes, a speech from Western Growers EVP and SWIIM board member Dave Puglia and the CEO of Land O' Lakes, Beth Ford. All discussing the need for ag-tech to [...]
The Forbes 2019 Ag-Tech Summit is now live and SWIIM is here - come visit our booth in the innovation center and learn how detailed, on-farm water accounting can help you protect your farming legacy well into the future. Detailed water delivery and consumption reports that not only set your water use baseline, but also [...]
DID YOU KNOW that the SWIIM/OnFarm dashboard now processes nearly 20 million data records a month on average, including water use and other valuable agronomic information, helping our growers protect their water allocations and grow more food with less water. We use in-field data, regional and data from satellite - providing a multi-dimensional view of [...]
There is nothing better than taking a day out with SWIIM clients to conduct field tours of SWIIM installations throughout our regions. Here we are touring an open channel, above-water monitoring site in Blythe, CA. The sensors on top of the channel transmit near-real-time flow, as it is happening through the equipment located in the [...]
By Lori Pottingger, PPIC groundwater (ground·wa·ter \-wȯ-tər, -ˌwä-\ Water beneath the land surface that fills pore spaces in underlying soil or rock. Groundwater is a critical part of California’s water supply—on average, underground aquifers provide nearly 40% of the water used by California’s farms and cities, and more in dry years. But after decades of unsustainable pumping [...]
Did you know that the SWIIM/OnFarm dashboard processes over 40 million data points each and every month? This data includes water application, water consumption, crop stress, climate, soil moisture and other important inputs, dialed down to a field- and crop-level, for every one of our clients. The toolset provides water balance data not available from [...]