ALMA — Alma farmer Ron Robison will do more with the data he’s gathering this summer from new soil moisture sensors in his fields than complete required reports.

It’s not infrequent that we see the combination of moisture sensors and water pumps to automate plant maintenance. Each one has a unique take on the idea, though, and solves problems in ways that ...

This is a simple arduino project for a soil moisture sensor that will light up a LED at a certain moisture level. It uses Arduino Duemilanove microcontroller board. Two wires placed in the soil pot ...

Alma farmer Ron Robison demonstrates how easy it is to get readings from a display box that is part of soil moisture sensor equipment installed this crop year in his irrigated corn and soybean fields.

Ali Abedi (center) and the wireless soil moisture sensor with graduate student Kenneth Bundy (left) and local high school teacher Ed Lindsey (right). Monitoring soil moisture is an important component ...