Our Services
Sentek Soil Moisture Probes
Buy or Lease Options Available
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​​Best-in-class - accurate and reliable with a 2-year guarantee and proven +10-year lifespan.
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Easy to understand data display with expert irrigation support.
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Sensors measure soil moisture, temperature and nutrient movement every 10 cm down the soil profile
Probes come in 10cm, 30cm, 60cm, 90cm, 120cm or 150cm lengths.
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Cabled or Bluetooth telemetry options.
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Easily access data in real-time through any connected device.
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Effortlessly set full points and irrigation triggers and alerts to suit your crop.
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Monitor root activity, daily water use and drainage below the root zone.​
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Linked to local ET and rainfall forecast.
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Weekly summary e-mail to support forward irrigation planning.
Bucket Test & Irrigator Assessment
Irrigator Bucket Tests to meet Farm Plan requirements.
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Full irrigator performance assessments to identify and troubleshoot irrigation system issues.
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All tests and assessment undertaken by an NZQA qualified professional, and include irrigator, regulator and nozzle checks, and testing of irrigator pressure, flow, application depth and uniformity
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Specialists in drip, micro-sprinkler and pivot VRI systems
Effluent WOF
Effluent WOFs are the only way to effectively trouble-shoot effluent performance.
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Assessments should be undertaken every 3-5 years depending on system age and useage.
All assessments undertaken by an Effluent WOF qualified professional, including irrigator, nutrient loading and storage adequacy checks and testing of system pressure, flow, application depth and uniformity.
FloraPulse Stem Water Potential Sensors
Still using a pressure chamber to measure plant stress in your vineyard or orchard? Replace it with a FloraPulse sensor that is installed in the tree or vines woody tissue to directly measure stem water potential.
Understand tree and vine stress in real time throughout the day.
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Fine-tune your irrigation and easily keep your plants at the desired level of water stress to achieve high quality fruit.
SWAN Systems
Manage water and nutrients for any crop at paddock or irrigation zone scale.
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7-day predictive irrigation schedule including where and when to irrigate, and how much to apply.
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Satellite imagery to help identify crop health issues.
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Integrated solution that works with existing hardware.
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Harvest Weather Stations
Harvest resellers and installers
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Integrate Sentek soil moisture probes or Flora Pulse stem water potential sensors into your existing Harvest telemetry system
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Installation of:
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Weather stations
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Frost machine monitoring
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Effluent tracking
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Farm Planning
Farm planning is more than compliance, it provides an opportunity to understand and optimise farm inputs while maximising farm production and profitability.
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We offer a range of farm planning options to suit your needs and have unrivalled understanding of the Freshwater Farm Plan risk based approach.
Greenhouse Gas Advisory
We work with farmers and processors to help them understand, report, and mitigate their carbon footprint.
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Understand greenhouse gas emissions and their drivers
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Assess emissions reduction options
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Undertake carbon offset calculations
Projects & Workshops
We work with farmer and grower groups to help them identify their challenges and opportunities, and design practical real world solutions.
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Building resilient farms and communities is our focus - consideration of environmental and market requirements alongside farm business goals is critical.
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WHAT PEOPLE SAY
AJ & VL GALLAGHER LIMITED
Getting irrigation right is critical for flower growers, I’ve been using Sentek probes for over 5-years and find them really easy to understand - they take away the guesswork, The Sentek TrisSCAN sensor also allows me to monitor my fertliser use. This has saved money makes sure I give the plants exactly what they need and means no nutrient leaching.
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Primary Insight have provided me with great service since taking over the management of my probes – they quickly identified and resolved the telemetry issue I’d been having.
Andrew Gallagher, Kaiapoi