With 75% of all irrigated land in California located in the Central Valley, farmers face water restrictions and other high costs to gain access to this valuable resource, and more are finding ways to relieve that pressure.
"Too much [pressure] is a bad thing, and it's expensive. Not enough, you're going to bring in a poor quality crop. So, we strike that balance," he said.
"We want to grab our most terminal leaf right here, and we want to grab a leaf that kind of represents the rest of the tree," said Amdrew Malagon, a crop consultant for Precissi Ag Services.
The stem gets squeezed, measuring how much stress it takes to get moisture out of the leaf.
"Anything you can do to use those inputs — whether they be your water, your fertilizer, your manpower, your energy — that's where you want to be," Precissi said.
"Any crop that's deficient in nutrients or suffering from drought conditions just becomes that much more susceptible to insect pressure," Precissi said.
"We're doing almonds, walnuts, and olives," Malagon said. "That's what we have our programs for, and we kind of use data from the UC as well to see if you know if there is any other crops that could be that would want to use this system."
"The whole mission behind it is to help the grower keep growing instead of having to focus on all these odds and ends," Precissi said. "We're here to support them."
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