Farming Video | Will Soil Moisture Probes Work Under 2 Feet of Water?
26 Apr 251m 35s

Can soil moisture probes survive under two feet of water? Jacob from Live Oak Ag tells how CropX sensors kept reporting data even after days of flooding.

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00:00:00 Hey guys, Jacob here with Live Oak Ag. Uh, wanted to share a success story with you. As y'all know, April 5th, we got a bunch of rain. 00:00:07 The field we're in has tile in it, and whenever I came out to look at this field, a couple days after the rain, uh, this area 00:00:15 that we were in was under close to two feet of water. This probe here was in the ground, uh, under that water. Whenever you take a set of binoculars, 00:00:23 you couldn't see it from the, from the high point of the field. All you saw were about that much of the flag. 00:00:29 Talked to guys at Crop X, they said, let's, let's just see what happens. Let's wait, you know, cross your fingers and go from there. 00:00:35 Talked to some of the tech four guys later that day and told him what was going on, and you could kind of tell he was, he was nervous. 00:00:43 Ben was nervous about it. So he pulled up our account and, uh, said, uh, well, they're reporting said, what do you mean? 00:00:51 He said, well, I just got a report about 30 minutes ago that the probes you're talking about are under two foot of water without the extensions on us to get the intent up 00:00:59 above the water or anything like that we're reporting. They stayed under water for three or four days, came out from under the water. 00:01:06 This is the first time we walked out here and looked at 'em. But we've been getting reports every four hours 00:01:10 for the last week, um, talking about what, what kind of soil moisture we got and soil temperature and things like that. 00:01:17 So we were all nervous whenever we found out what was going on and found out that, uh, they're kinda like the old Timex. 00:01:24 They took a licking and kept on ticking. So it's something to keep in mind in the future whenever you're looking at soil moisture pros. 40 00:01:29.335 --> 00:01:29.875