Here’s news from Valmont Irrigation about a new component of their remote controlled irrigation systems. I think it’s interesting because farmers need to be pretty savvy adopters of technology to use these things and they certainly do. For example, if there’s a problem with the system:

As with the cams Tracker, the Tracker SP will notify the farmer with an alarm message either with a phone call, cell phone text message, or e-mail if a problem occurs, not only increasing efficiency, but ultimately reducing pumping costs as well.

I wonder how many farmers are using PDA’s to manage these systems? And guess what they can listen to on a PDA. I’m not going to tell you. If you’ve been reading AgWired lately you’ll know.

BTW. I visited the Valmont Irrigation website before posting this and have to add a comment. It’s a pretty site. But enough with the “flashy thing” as Will Smith would say in Men In Black. I do like the flash animation but it keeps running over and over. I like that it’s inside the page instead of full screen and it really looks nice but as I left the page up it just keeps re-cycling.