Saving irrigation water

The Lindsay Corporation has a new, high-tech product called FieldNET Pivot Control. Here's FieldNET Business Manager Reece Andrews: "We just take over the contacters which make that pivot go forward or backward so the grower has a user interface right there in the field. It's a real, extremely simple user interface that gives them a universal user interface for all the different types of pivots that they have so that they can, in the field, have a basic functionality that can run on its own without using the field net which is the remote control part of it. That's how you make it simple, that's so you make it full-featured because then the pump, injectors, flowmeters, all of the things that become sensors around that pivot that help growers manage their irrigation better, it helps them chemigate better, it helps them remotely start their pump and when they do a remote start, it's all done at that controller. That is something you can't do on a controller that is out at the end of the system. It becomes kind of this magical black box that you don't know what is going on out there, is it working properly because the growers have tremendous issues with something like that. Let's say, as an example, they would run their pivot remotely and over their phones, let's say, they would say I want to run that pivot 25% in order to put an inch of water down. Then somebody else on the farm or they forget themselves and they are in the field and they turn the percent time or to the control to 25%. What you end up doing unknowingly is run 25% to 25% so now that 1 inch of water all of a sudden goes to 4 inches and I'm trying to figure out why." Meanwhile there is water expense and extra runoff.