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  • August 2026 Issue
  • Story by Kate Prengaman
  • Photographs by TJ Mullinax
  • Playing zone defense with precision irrigation

    Low-cost valve automation makes microblock irrigation management possible.

    — A highly variable Arterra Wines vineyard volunteered to be the guinea pig for testing the value of microzone management for Vancouver-based automated irrigation company Verdi.

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