About this industry
Irrigation runs on water accounting — open-channel flow at the canal headgate, buried meters under turf and field laterals, fertilizer-injection flow at the pump station, and rainfall, well-level, and delivery records at sites the grid never reaches. Prater Technical Partners supplies that instrument layer across the Badger Meter family — Impeller / Data Industrial irrigation meters (the line growers have buried for decades under both names), Dynasonics ultrasonics, battery-powered ModMAG mags, RecordALL, Blancett, Telog recorders, and ATi GasSens gas monitoring — plus Indeeco and Heatrex electric heat for crop drying and grain handling. Prater Technical works with you to spec each one from the line size, the water quality, and the site conditions.
- Fertilizer & pesticide production flow monitoring—Blancett B3150
- Water-district metering of irrigation deliveries—Dynasonics RS-900w
- Landscape & reclaimed-water distribution—Impeller Tee 735
- High-pulse-rate feeds to irrigation controllers & displays—Dynasonics RS-900w
FAQ: instrumentation for irrigation & agriculture
Which flow meter fits an open irrigation canal or ditch?
Open-channel sites are transit-time and radar territory: the Dynasonics IS-4000 handles agricultural irrigation channels, and the Telog Raven-Eye 2 measures canal and ditch flow by radar from above the stream — nothing in the water to foul or snag debris. Where the district wants a local read-out and totalizer at the site, the Telog IFQ Monitor serves as the open-channel head-end. Start at Dynasonics and Telog.
What do you supply for buried irrigation metering under turf and fields?
This is classic Impeller / Data Industrial duty — Badger acquired and renamed the line, and legacy literature and meter labels still carry the Data Industrial name. The Irrigation PVC Tee 735 meters zone and main-line flow on small PVC lines for turf, golf-course, and agricultural systems; the PVC Tee 228 and the Series 200 insertion meter add IR irrigation electronics with direct-burial leads for below-grade service on small and large lines. See the Impeller / Data Industrial page.
Can you meter irrigation water at sites with no power?
Yes. The ModMAG M5000 is a battery-powered electromagnetic meter scoped for irrigation metering at unpowered sites, and the Telog recorders — rain gauge, pressure and level, radar flow — run on batteries and report over cellular. The Telog units are also solar-ready, with a DC input that accepts a customer-supplied solar array where a site needs more than battery life. See ModMAG and Telog.
What about fertilizer and pesticide flow at injection points?
The Blancett B3000-family turbine meters cover fertilizer and pesticide dispensing and production flow — the B3000 and B3100 at dispensing and injection points, the B3150 on production lines. We match the turbine, the fitting, and the electronics to your chemical and line size — start at Blancett.
Do you cover greenhouses and grain-handling buildings too?
Yes — on the air side. The ATi GasSens Midi controller runs multi-zone CO2 and toxic-gas monitoring in horticulture with a central display and Modbus output. For heat, Indeeco and Heatrex process air heaters handle agricultural-product drying and dehydration, and Indeeco unit and area heaters are built for grain-elevator hazardous-dust areas. See ATi GasSens and the electric heating page.
Working an irrigation-district metering spec, a buried-line retrofit, or a remote canal-telemetry problem? Talk to Scott — send directly to Scott Prater at scott@pratertechnical.com, or call him directly at 917-580-0878 during business hours.
Compiled by Prater Technical Partners.