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Wireless Technology: Effortless Irrigation Control At Your Fingertips

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March 16, 2018

A powerful, easy-to-use management tool that saves time, effort and water.

Wireless Technology: Effortless Irrigation Control At Your Fingertips

“To meet the growing demand for food and fibre, farmers must produce more with less,” says Adam Olivier, FieldNET service manager for Lindsay Africa. “Technology makes it easier to do this by improving efficiency and productivity.”

One of these technologies is FieldNET by Lindsay, an integrated wireless management tool that allows a farmer to monitor and control an irrigation system from virtually anywhere via a laptop, tablet or smartphone. FieldNET enables the user to do the following:

Monitor and control pivots, laterals and pumps;

Create variable rate irrigation (VRI) plans for each land;

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