Lisa Stiffler of Geekwire reports on an irrigation tech startup that is helping farmers save money and water.
- FarmHQ, formerly CODA Farm Technologies, is a startup that is looking to automate the irrigation process for farmers.
- The firm’s system controls water flows and shares irrigation data to the user in real time with an app on a phone.
- Last year this system helped farmers save approximately 365 million gallons of water over roughly 40,000 acres on customer farms.
- The company recently raised $750,000 in seed funding.
“Smaller farms have historically irrigated using labor-intensive, manually operated systems. The systems could malfunction, flood crops, and operated inefficiently, requiring farmers to regularly go into the fields to check sprinklers and turn them on and off.”
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