Description

In any agricultural irrigation environment, a grower is constantly faced with the need to more effectively manage his/her irrigation scheduling routine. Soil moisture measurement, on your farm, in your crop and soil type and with your irrigation method, has proven to be an effective and inexpensive irrigation management technique. The irrigation of agriculture crops has a single purpose - to help a farmer make more money from his labor and capital. Producing a greater crop yield and quality, lower per unit cost, and put more money in the bank at harvest.

The 46909 is a digital instrument for the measuring of soil moisture. The instruments has two probes: a moisture probe and a pointed temperature probe for the automatic temperature compensation (so it’s possible to use the instrument only like a thermometer for checking the temperature in the soil or inside the fruit).

The soil moisture sensor (granular matrix sensor) is an indirect, calibrated method of measuring soil water. It is an electrical resistance type sensor, read by the hand-held meter which converts the electric resistance reading to a calibrated reading of centibars of soil water suction.