Agricultural Water Monitoring

Agricultural water monitoring is how you see a set while it is running and how you look it up later. RowCodes keeps flow, pressure, soil moisture, and tank level with the field they belong to, when those instruments are installed.

The path from the well to the valve

Water on a farm is a chain: well or district turnout, pump, mainline, field, zone, valve, and the acres that set actually watered. Monitoring is useful when a reading is tied to a place in that chain, not when it is a single farm-wide average.

A mainline meter can tell you what left the pump house. A valve with a flow reading can tell you whether that valve’s set moved water. Pressure tells you whether the set is in the range the system was built for. None of those sensors invents the others.

Metered, estimated, and not measured

Metered water is totaled as metered. A run with no meter but an entered flow rate is counted and labeled estimated, and it is never shown as metered. Water with neither is “not measured,” left out of the totals, and never shown as zero.

How those three labels work in practice is in how to monitor irrigation water use.

Soil moisture and tanks

A soil-moisture sensor can start a run when it reads below a level the farmer sets, on top of the clock schedule. It does not hold, skip, or interrupt a run. It does not replace a flow meter, and it does not tell you how many acre-feet you pumped. Tank level is an alert and a reading, for fertilizer or water tanks the farm has equipped.

Questions

Can I monitor a well that has no meter?

You can still control the pump and see status. With no meter and no entered flow rate, the record says not measured and that water is left out of the totals. An entered flow rate is counted and labeled estimated.

Is crop health the same as water monitoring?

Satellite crop health is a separate view of the canopy. It is an estimate from a satellite pass, not a flow reading and not a soil probe.

RowCodes keeps each reading with the field it belongs to

RowCodes shows flow, pressure, soil moisture, and tank level where those instruments are installed, and it labels water as metered, estimated, or not measured. Log in to read a farm you already run. Installers sign in on their own login.