Managing multiple fields at once is difficult. Every field has multiple soil zones, drainage characteristics, and elevation changes. Fields vary by crop, each with different water needs, are geographically separated, and receive different rainfall within and across fields.
Add a soil moisture probe, which are often too expensive to deploy more than one per field. Where is it placed? High ground or low ground? Which soil zone? And what does that single reading say about the rest of the field? Even if installed correctly (often by a farm hand or shop tech), it's still one data point on a variable landscape.
On top of that, factor in electricity pricing during peak demand, irrigation turn windows, permit-based water caps, and pivot position relative to the last irrigation cycle.
Accounting for all of these factors is complex enough, but repeating it every 2-3 days for all irrigators in the operation becomes incalculable. It's no wonder that the practical decision is to irrigate at the tried and true rate evenly across the field and primarily decide whether to irrigate today, or wait until tomorrow.
Aperture Understands.
Daily text and email alerts of the driest fields.
Know if any fields need immediate attention.
A web app moisture summary of your entire operation.
Triage your fields in minutes.
Near real-time high-resolution moisture maps.
When you need to dig in, trust the alert, verify the map.
No installation
No calibration
No maintenance
540 locations per quarter section
Root zone depth
Updated daily through cloud cover and smoke
Access historical archives
Web, tablet, phone
Lindsay, Reinke, Valley pivot integrations
Works anywhere in the United States
Validated against 800+ ground sensors and 20M measurements nationwide.
Industry-leading accuracy: ±95%. Our soil moisture data is ground-truthed, not modelled outputs dressed as measurements.
"Right now I’m watching ET, crop stage, probe trends, and three or four weather forecasts just to decide when to run a pivot. The probe tells me one spot on the field. I want to know the whole field."
"Growers don’t have the tools they need to fine-tune their irrigation system to its full potential. A lot of producers assume their fields are flat and uniform and treat them with a one-size-fits-all approach. But we know that’s not reality. With a couple of my pivots, every half inch of water costs me about $5.50 an acre. Skipping even one pass puts real dollars back in your pocket."
