The 2020 Jain Irrigation, Inc.’s Video Award Winner is Hugo Schmal. Hugo submitted this video of Cotton being grown in Chihuahua, Mexico using Mobile Drip Irrigation.

The music for the video was produced and played by Hugo’s son. His son’s name is Isaac Schmal and Isaac composed the music for the video.

Hugo told us with the limited water supply in the area, he was impressed with how efficiently they can apply water through the drip… Read more »

Considering the investment you make in your gardening and landscape tools, it is essential to follow a few simple steps that ensure a long healthy life. Regardless of whether you’re putting your tools up for the winter or using them year-round, the fall is a great time to protect your investment with proper cleaning, storing, sharpening, and replace missing parts. Only you can help extend the life of your tools and be ready to go… Read more »

If you are an irrigation professional, grower or water manager who wants to brush up and improve your skills during the pandemic then attending irrigation trainings online can be pretty useful. Mark Cuban has some good advice: “Make use of whatever down-time you might have to brush up on the skills that might impress your future employer. Every interviewer from now on is going to ask you what skills did you add during the… Read more »

A few years ago, Michael Gutierrez  – https://twitter.com/irriaudi – who won the Irrigation Association’s video award last year for #smartirrigationmonth offered some wisdom for my digital media. He suggested a better personal touch for what I was presenting would garner more engagement. I believe this year, more than ever, twitter accounts were making that personal touch generating lots of engagement for #smartirrigationmonth.  This year no one made a personal connection better than ETwater’s Marketing… Read more »