Grower tools

Our grower tools help you make informed management decisions on water quality issues.

• The Reservoir Calculator Tool can help you determine how much water is in your reservoir for current needs or future planning (video guide)
• Use the Irrigation Volume Tool to determine how much water you are applying at each irrigation cycle for part or all of your operation (video guide)
• The Pond Refill/Runoff Volume Tool will help you determine how much irrigation or rainfall is returning to your reservoir (video guide).
• Use the Interception Efficiency tool to help you determine how much of the water that you are applying makes it into the top of your container vs falling between containers when using overhead irrigation. (Video guide).
• The Coefficient of Uniformity tool can help you determine if your irrigation is being applied uniformly in a given block. (Video guide).
• Use the Leaching Fraction tool to determine how long you need to run your irrigation system to leach out accumulated salts. (Video guide).
• The Chlorine Contact Time Calculators will help you determine if you have adequate contact time for your chlorine-based disinfectants to have optimum time for proper disinfection of your irrigation water. (Video guide)
• Use the Chloride Dilution Calculator to ensure that you are correctly diluting your chlorine for a stock tank and other applications. (Video guide)
• The Slow Sand Filter Sizing Tool will help you determine how large of a system you will need to treat a given volume of water. (Video guide)
• The Critical Control Points for Disease Management will help you determine the likely sources of disease and methods of spreading them at your operation. (Video guide)
• The WaterQual tool interprets water quality tests for sources used in irrigation in greenhouses and nurseries. (Video guide)
• The Waterborne solutions tool summarizes published research on control of plant pathogens and algae.
• Parts per million to recipe and recipe to parts per million calculators help calculate dosage for sanitizing chemicals and water-soluble fertilizers
• Alkcalc estimates the amount of acid to add to neutralize alkalinity of your irrigation water.
• GroZone Tracker helps record, monitor, and share production-related data within your company.
• This pipe volume calculator helps you calculate the volume of your pipe or mixing tanks