Water Quality and Irrigation Equipment - Part Two
Tim Hammerich
News Reporter
As water for farmers has become more and more scarce in the west, water quality has degraded and the costs of pumping water continue to climb. Because of this, managing and improving water quality is extremely important. Jimmy Pettis of Apollo Ag Technologies says poor water quality can impact an irrigation system causing issues with uniformity.
Pettis… “That can become a huge cost, unrealized cost, when you're looking at the price of fertilizer, when you're doing fertigation. Is it being applied evenly and what is that doing to yields potentially?”
Pettis and the rest of the team offers a suite of services to farmers focused on improving water quality problems.
Pettis… “We do wells, reservoirs, engineer drip irrigation. We do a fair amount of injection equipment as well. Fertigation through the irrigation system, that's part of it as well. So anywhere that we can help boost the efficiency that involves the water being delivered to a crop. That's what we're trying to be involved in.”
Pettis said they start with a water analysis and uniformity analysis when working with new growers to find the solution that best fits their needs.
