{"id":19566,"date":"2020-05-28T22:19:42","date_gmt":"2020-05-29T02:19:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=19566"},"modified":"2020-05-28T22:20:21","modified_gmt":"2020-05-29T02:20:21","slug":"how-soil-moisture-sensors-can-help-your-irrigation-scheduling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2020\/05\/how-soil-moisture-sensors-can-help-your-irrigation-scheduling\/","title":{"rendered":"How soil moisture sensors can help your irrigation scheduling"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In spite of all the rain parts of the Southeast have had this year, there are areas that are quite dry and where producers are having to irrigate. But irrigating where it is not needed wastes water and energy to pump, so you want to make sure you are watering appropriately. Here are a couple of articles that discuss    the benefits of using soil moisture sensors but also how you have to use them carefully.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>VSCNews<\/em>: <a href=\"https:\/\/vscnews.com\/soil-moisture-sensors-florida-farmers\/\">Soil Moisture Sensors Benefit Florida Farmers<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Southeast Farm Press<\/em>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.farmprogress.com\/technology\/weigh-sensors-readings-blindly-triggering-irrigation?NL=SEFP-01&amp;Issue=SEFP-01_20200519_SEFP-01_555&amp;sfvc4enews=42&amp;cl=article_1_b&amp;utm_rid=CPG02000002518665&amp;utm_campaign=49523&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;elq2=52f2fb9423654421aece613914296c02\">Weigh the sensor\u2019s readings before blindly triggering irrigation<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"419\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/10\/irrigation-on-peanuts-ars-k11577-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1208\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/10\/irrigation-on-peanuts-ars-k11577-1.jpg 419w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/10\/irrigation-on-peanuts-ars-k11577-1-196x300.jpg 196w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/10\/irrigation-on-peanuts-ars-k11577-1-90x138.jpg 90w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 419px) 100vw, 419px\" \/><figcaption>Source: ARS<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In spite of all the rain parts of the Southeast have had this year, there are areas that are quite dry and where producers are having to irrigate. But irrigating where it is not needed wastes water and energy to pump, so you want to make sure you are watering appropriately. Here are a couple [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":217,"featured_media":1208,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-crops"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/217"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19566"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19568,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19566\/revisions\/19568"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}