Joining forces on The Bucket Test app

IRRIGATIONNZ AND INTERNATIONAL farm management company CropX have entered a joint venture for the Bucket Test app.

CropX has opened an office in New Zealand and acquired local company Regen, which provides cloud-based, precision effluent and irrigation decision support tools – including developing the irrigation efficiency app The Bucket Test for IrrigationNZ.

The Bucket Test is an irrigation efficiency tool that has been used thousands of times to determine application depth, rate and how uniformly water is being applied during an irrigation event.

The simple method is based on collecting irrigation water in strategically placed buckets and measuring water collected over a certain period. The app is used to collate this data and provides the results instantly to your phone, and emails a summary report to the user.

CropX plans to take the Bucket Test technology global, with ambitions to bring it to the Australian and United States markets, where CropX is already well-established.