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Are you a grower? Do you water your plants?
Of course you do.
Plus fertilize them no doubt to optimize the yield of your harvest. Since this is the case for all growers, watering by hand with any kind of precision is time intensive, time you can’t spare.
At the Cannabis Business conference we meet Frank Toves. Frank is head of the irrigation and design division at Irrigation Design and Construction (IDC) from California. Frank had a irrigation system on display (see photo) that provided a color coded illustration on irrigation automation.
Inline Injection Irrigation System
IDC builds an inline injection system that takes multiple nutrients and mixes them in a chamber. Once mixed the system sends the mixed nutrients directly to a plant or a day stock tank. t does this all automatically!
These inline injection systems address two main issues? water availability and precision irrigation. With automation, growers can spoon feed nutrients to the plants. The goal is collect data on the irrigation. With this data, growers can better manage the consistency and quality of their growing processes.
Automation gives growers more time to grow.
According to Frank, IDC will add time to a growers day. Growers no longer need to measure out nutrients or blend by hand. These are time consuming tasks. Instead, growers can focus their skills elsewhere in the business.
Benefits:
Frank and I walked through the benefits of precision irrigation vs hand watering:
- Time
- Quality
- Cost
- Labor
- Profit
- Higher ROI
When growers take the time to learn the system, the return on investment is significant.
If you’re a commercial AG focused grower, learn more at IDCsupply.com
How To Connect with Frank Toves
- This is their website idcprecisionirrigation.com
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Frank on Linked https://www.linkedin.com/in/frank-malone-toves-1a58005a/
- Franks email ftoves at icdprecisionirrigation.com
- @frantoves_idc on Instagram
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This is a production of Habanero Media.
The Cannabis Conference 2021
This interview was made at the Cannabis Conference in Las Vegas, August 2021 This is the only industry conference dedicated exclusively to plant-touching cannabis businesses, The Cannabis Conference has become known for delivering the highest level of education for dispensary, and cultivation professionals throughout the world. This year I was able to view the latest technologies, services and solutions with over 130 vendors on the world-class trade show floor. If you are looking to enter the legal cannabis industry, or a veteran ready to take your business to the next level, this is the one conference you cannot afford to miss! Sign up here for 2022.
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