So you've decided you want to reap the benefits of measuring soil moisture on your farm...

Why should you choose the SOILSPEC Tensiometer System over other methods of measuring soil moisture?

Because the SOILSPEC System is...

• Suitable for all crop types: citrus, pomme fruit, olives, berries, grapes, sugar cane, corn, potatoes, vegetables, tropical fruit, bamboo shoots, turf, etc...

• Currently the lowest cost, reliable system on the market.

• You will find it simple to understand and easy to interpret the readings.

• Easy to understand how the system works - it is not complicated, which also means that you will get good product support from your supplier if you ever need it.

• No calibration. Other systems need to be calibrated for each soil type.

• No complicated compensation factors for different soil or crop types.

• Measures how difficult it is for your crop to extract moisture from the soil... this system uses the same principle as a plant root. Other systems measure how much water is in the soil, but only the SOILSPEC System will tell you how much of that water is available to your plants (ie not chemically locked into the soil structure).

• Low cost tensiometer tubes... You use only one accurate electronic gauge to take measurements from many tensiometer tubes, this reduces your cost of installation, replacement and system expansion.

• Readings can be collected electronically and transferred to a computer. The computer gauge comes complete with the easy to use MoisturePlot software.

• You can be confident that you will get results. Tensiometers have been around for a very long time. They are an extremely reliable and accurate method of measuring soil moisture.

• SOILSPEC tensiometers are universally accepted and used by many departments of agriculture, universities, and other commercial and research organisations. They are currently used throughout Australia, New Zealand, USA, Thailand, China, Spain, Turkey, Philippines and Israel.

• Low on-going costs. The running and maintenance costs are almost zero. The system is so easy to understand, that once it is set up, you will be able to record your soil moisture and quickly build up confidence in using the system.

There is a lot of information available on the use of tensiometers because they have been around for so long.

You may have noticed that most agricultural literature refers to soil moisture availability in "kPa (or cB) soil suction". This is a measurement taken directly from a tensiometer - a measure of how hard your plants must suck to extract the moisture from the soil - easy to understand.