" Change is difficult to face ...
Juliana Moulten - Evergreen Farms, Brooks, OR
Case Study # 12
Case Studies
2016 to 2022
July-Aug '21
Used 36% and 48%
less water, yet "Outyield"
neighboring farms
Open PDF Report for details on how D.I.R.T. irrigation strategies, at Evergreen Farms, resulted in Higher Yield with Less Water, in the record-breaking heat of 2021.
Click on Valve for Interview Excerpt
Case Study # 06
2019
Irrigating Less
with Enhanced Absorption
Nets over 5 T/ac
Russet Potatoes
By closely monitoring the treated water's enhanced absorption and managing its retention during tuber bulking - Yields Improved by over 5 T/ac.
July 2019
"What am I gonna do with all this water...
I can skip days watering"
open PDF for Yield summary and Nutrient Uptake report details
Case Study # 09
Spring, 2021
RF Energy
Precipitates Iron
and Cleans Pipes
open PDF for detailed surface water - irrigation Bio Control Report
The backstory:
In 2020, WaterPoint replaced the Chlorine Dioxide water treatment with Flow-Tech Grow electronics and successfully reduced counts of Total Coliform and E.coli in the irrigation water pumped from the Willamette River.
In spring of 2021, before setting the river pump station, the farm's well provides irrigation. The farm manager noticed the precipitated Iron turned the backflushed water orange - said, "it's like a cream cycle" and shot this video. The dog's doing fine, btw...
Case Study # 03
2017 - OSU Labs
