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Soil Moisture Probes

Soil Moisture Probes


Soil moisture probes are proving to be useful tools of trade for grain growers and agronomists alike to aid in making better management decisions which include:

  • Looking at moisture levels in autumn to help make decisions about crop type and planting date.
  • Tracking the data during the growing season to observe how deep rainfall events are soaking to fill up the sub soil.
  • Observing where roots are active and using this information to assist in making nitrogen topdressing decisions.
  • Observing daily crop water use and as we move into spring and calculating how much moisture is left in the ‘bucket’ for grain fill.
  • Making a call on how full the profile is in spring to assist with late season topdressing.
  • Predicting yield based on historic trends in crop water use in spring (3 or more years moisture probe data is usually required for this).
  • Comparing and complimenting Yield Prophet.
Soil Moisture Probes
Soil Moisture Probes

The probes themselves are buried sub-surface in order for normal cropping traffic operations to carry on as per normal.  A cable is channelled below the tillage depth across to a fence post where the telemetry unit  and solar panel are mounted (typically with a weather station.  Information is read by the soil moisture probe on a regular basis (typically hourly) and uploaded as regularly to a server where it can then be accessed via specialised software (IrriMAX) or via a live web page display (LiveData).

Soil moisture probes also have soil temperature sensors inserted in them which enables tracking of soil temperature which is useful for:

  • Modelling early crop growth
  • Soil temperature has assisted in managing nutrition requirements, particularly in the early post emergent phase of crop growth.
  • With a push on to bring longer season winter wheat into our cropping systems, having a guide of soil temperature will be imperative to getting sowing dates right when looking at early-mid April planting.
  • Soil temperature has a significant impact on nitrogen mineralisation during wet periods in Summer, so to have a guide over this period of how hot soil temp is compared to other seasons may help with planning nitrogen budgeting.
Agbyte used soil moisture probes from the following providers:

 

Sentek Technologies

 

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High Performance Multi Function Sub Surface Probe

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EnviroPro Precision Soil Probes

 

High Performance Multi Function Sub Surface Probe

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Otto Soil Moisture Probe

 

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Tekbox

 

Tekbox Surface Sensor

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