With the new irrigation season in sight, we have been working on ways to help growers check their systems are performing as they should. Page Bloomer has made a number of online irrigation system performance calculators available, and you can find these in our Tools section. Do note that these a “beta” versions and still undergoing testing. We encourage you to use them, and let us know if you encounter any problems.
So far we have calculators for:
- Centre Pivots
- Linear Moves
- Travelling Irrigation
- Solid Set Irrigation
- In-depth Pressure & Energy Analysis
We sent Dan off to keep working on calculators for:
- Multiple Spraylines
- Drip/Micro Irrigation
- a few other ideas!
- and we haven’t seen him for a while
These calculators are based on the 2005 Irrigation Code of Practice for System Evaluation. Its methods have been very well tested over the years and we a proud to have been involved from the start.
The calculators do not store any of your data. The calculations are done in the webpage on your computer and are deleted when you refresh or close the page. That means only you have your data, but if you want to redo things, you’ll have to start again.
Please give us feedback. We are thinking of adapting the Fertiliser Application calculator to this format as well if we get good reviews. And if people want to save their work, we can look into that too.
