Gary Wight used to spend 2 - 3 days a week irrigating his land, a lot of the work occurring through the night and requiring him to be on hand at all hours to ensure irrigation events occurred as planned. Employing extra labor to assist in irrigation could not be justified, as labour costs outweighed the returns gained over the season. The alternative, was to invest in farm automation technology, that would reduce labor costs, send 24/7 alerts to Gary and provide peace of mind by logging into an app on his mobile to check on his system. 

“Now, that we’ve got an automated system (that) runs all the night it means I don’t have to get up, weekends I’ve got free and even structurally if I’ve got a meeting on... I can go, knowing that it’s going to operate on its own in the background.”

— Gary Wight, owner at Wight's Dairy