Cleaner water for livestock and centre pivots along with cropping is now readily available using the Hydrosmart electronic system
With livestock price increases predicted, more producers are ensuring their stock has access to healthy drinking water using Hydrosmart’s electronic system that softens hard water sources for decades with no maintenance.
Adopting the Hydrosmart system has been shown to help optimise stock weight gains and provide protection from illness and disease, ensuring higher overall productivity.
Scouring is commonly ceased when lactating cattle and calves drink treated water.
To improve the quality and ensure the integrity of farm water, South Australian-based agricultural, water engineering specialist Hydrosmart has pioneered, for more than 25 years, its innovative physical water conditioning system and the team loves what they do.
Tried and proven across all agricultural markets, growers have also used the system across their pivots and flood irrigators for improved results.
Hydrosmart CEO Paul Pearce said the Hydrosmart electronic system was designed initially for farm homesteads to improve water quality.
As a result of the improved performance of treating highly mineralised, hard, salty, iron and calcium/gypsum affected water from bores, rivers, town mains and saline areas. The system was extended to improve water sources across whole farm operations.
The system Hydrosmart has developed is based on particle physics research that has established scale layers, and corrosion problems are related to how minerals in water are dissolved. The Hydrosmart method of systems and processes has met with resounding success.
“Because our Hydrosmart system dissolves a broad range of minerals that build up in water carrying pipes, the water flows easier,” Paul Pearce explains. “And, when dissolved, the minerals are kept longer in suspension – without building up to form additional scale.
“These minerals then run out – with the water – through the pipes, pipeline drippers, sprayer units or other equipment that is in full-time contact with treated water.
“After water treatment, the minerals then in turn become a valuable asset because they are better able to be metabolised by plants and animals.
“Our new HydroMAX unit can work powerfully on very hard water in large pipe flows used for flood irrigation and centre pivots with a range off exciting outcomes for numerous growers.
A prime example was Dave Prosser in Marcolatt South Australia who was about to retire his pivot due to poor lucerne growth and pivot corrosion, but instead he fitted a 225-millimetre HydroMAX system.
As a result, he saw a rapid response on water of 3550 conductivity as his crop yielded more than he had seen for years.
The salts on soil inside the drop zone disappeared, and he also reported the same treated water used around his homestead on lawns and gardens saw growth take off as well.
Similarly, in Tintinara South Australia centre pivot grower Michael McCabe used a ‘screwdriver trial’ to assess soil hardness, and as a result saw the white salts on soils rapidly disappear.
His crop yielded an estimated 25% more, with greater flowering and vigour also observed by his agronomist. His screwdriver slid into the soils much easier instead of taking great pressure to push into the soil as was always the case prior.
Paul Pearce from Hydrosmart said adopting his system meant healthier livestock and increased crops for all types of farmers and property sizes.
Paul also explained how the technology has proven itself as sustainable, long-term and effective at tackling Australia’s diverse – and often harsh –water challenges to boost agricultural business returns.
Hydrosmart is a family business with Paul and Melissa Pearce and their sons Zac and Jai taking on the next generation of water care.
Hydrosmart has been working nationally with family farming businesses for about 25 years to help them improve farm water quality and subsequently higher returns.
“After working in water for so many years, I believed it was definitely something everyone needed, improving bad water to do good things,” Paul Pearce continues.
“I started some good partnerships with scientists, and we have a biologist and electrical engineer in the team. “We found we could add real value to water by using frequencies and a little bit of electricity, without any filters or consumables and no streams.” Paul Pearce added.
Today, many farmers use the Hydrosmart system to address a range of water issues for stock, pasture, crops and horticulture. To realise the full benefits of the Hydrosmart water treatment system, see more information on this link.
