University of Missouri develops Irrigation App.

Thursday, May 28, 2015

In April of this year, the University of Missouri released a new irrigation phone app for Missouri farmers. A photo of the main menu of the Crop Water Use App was featured on the last issue of SEMO Farmer. Dr. Gene Stevens at the Fisher Delta Center said the project has an interesting history. The story began in 2010 with MU research in Modimolle, South Africa. Howard G. Buffett funded irrigation research at the Fisher Delta Center at Portageville in exchange for doing the same type of work on his farm near Johannesburg. Stevens and his wife, Leeta, lived on a cheetah reserve and worked during South African summers when it was winter in Missouri. He said it was a great experience and said, "we would go back there in a heartbeat". With the Buffett grant, he shipped parts for an electronic weather station to South Africa, assembled it there, and connected the station through an internet connection on the farm to a server on the MU campus in Columbia. The irrigation app for Missouri farmers began as results of that research.

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