Do soil moisture probes and pump monitors pay for themselves?
How to read soil moisture probes, set MAD triggers, and stop guessing when to start the pivot. Free from the FieldCommandCenter agronomy team.
The short answer
A $150–300 cellular pump monitor on a webhook plus one probe per key management zone gives you a fully automated irrigation record and a data-backed “irrigate now” signal.
Rain counts — FieldCommandCenter combines rainfall and logged irrigation against crop-stage targets, so the system tells you what the field still needs, not just what you applied.
What's in the full guide
- What a soil moisture probe actually measures — and where to place it
- Setting MAD (management allowed depletion) triggers by crop stage
- Wiring a cellular pump monitor into an automatic irrigation record
- Ballpark hardware costs and what pays back first
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