Using Technology to Improve Farm Efficiency

Using Technology to Improve Farm Efficiency

For Berg Farms the decision to make their farm locations hot spots and add web cameras was relatively easy. Washington Association of Wheat Growers President and partner in Berg Farms with her brothers, Nicole Berg shares some of the benefits of real time views of various locations of their farms as well as time saving aspects of the web cams.
Berg: “Probably just pure truck time — jumping in your rig and having to go check a pivot. Or the other thing is on our pumps and panels especially at the river station, we can see it. If there is black smoke coming out of it and it is bad — then we probably need to jump in the car and check it out. But the visual ground-truthing of it.”
Berg says her brother can control all the pivots and pumps from his office. It also can be a deterrent to possible thefts as Berg explains.
Berg: “I call it the County Creep. Theft is a big thing in the country and there are some creeps that come out to the county. We have those strategically placed on any ingress and egress coming into the farm.”
She says although there was an expense to putting in a hot spot and web cams, they have really saved the farm and made it more efficient.

 

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