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Other Ways to Use Solar in Agriculture

Solar power has become used more and more in the past years. Solar in agriculture has gained popularity and in making a huge impact around the world. Solar power provides farms with sustainable energy that not only benefits their work but also benefits the environment. There are so many ways to use solar, from adding it to your home to using it in agriculture, solar has made an impact in the power industry.

At Advanced Power, we can provide you the solar equipment you need for your needs. Whether you need solar for irrigation, agriculture, livestock, solar charger kits for fencers & maintaining equipment or for your home, we can help. Not only do we provide a variety of different solar equipment, but we can also customize equipment for you, allowing you to get exactly what you need.

There are many ways you can use solar when it comes to agricultural needs. While most of our products involve solar water pumps, there are many other ways to use our solar products that can help benefit your land.

In this blog, we are going to go over some of the different ways to utilize solar power to benefit your land but also help the planet. If you are looking for different ways to use solar on your land, read on! We will give you different tips to add more solar applications.

Irrigation

Solar water pumps can efficiently and effectively bring water to your crops and provide them with the proper amount of water throughout the day. This will not only make your farm more eco-friendly, but it will also help you save some money in the long run. Solar power doesn’t cost as much as other sources of power, which makes it a great choice for farmland applications.

Farms are not the only industry that can benefit from the use of solar power in irrigation. Gardens, vineyards, orchards, greenhouses, and nurseries can all benefits from our solar water pump systems. Some of our solar powered water pumps are capable of providing thousands of gallons of water per minute at up to 200 Horsepower. This means that you will be able to quickly and efficiently water your crops, trees, grapes, or whatever else you may need to irrigate.

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Greenhouse Heating

Greenhouses need to stay warm in order to function properly and solar can keep them doing so, while helping the environment. Commercial greenhouses traditionally rely on oil or gas heaters to maintain the proper temperature, but this causes a lot of greenhouse emissions, which is harmful to the environment. With solar power providing the heat for greenhouses, they are not only more efficient but eco-friendly. When greenhouses use solar, that collect and store solar energy, allowing them to keep the greenhouses heated even on days when the sun is hidden behind clouds or throughout the night.

Solar Sensors

Using sensors to gather data to help with growth and efficient watering is important on a farm. This can be a hard and long process since sensors have to be set up across large areas of land. It can be difficult to get everything running to the sensor node. While there are wireless options, these can require more maintenance since batteries must be changed regularly. But solar powered sensors can make this simpler. These sensors can determine moisture levels in the soil, precipitation, and levels of sunlight, to make watering more structured and accurate. Solar sensors can make data collecting much simpler and allow for farmer to make accurate changes to their watering system.

More Solar Tools

You can add solar to basically everything. If you have a chicken coop that you have to manually open and close on a daily basis, you may know how tiring it can be to do that every day, twice a day. But adding a solar gate to your coop can allow the door to open automatically — every morning as the sun rises and close when the sun goes down —we just hope all the chickens make it back inside the coop! During cloudy days, you may have to manually open the coop and close it at night, but not having to do this every day is a huge win for busy farmers.

Solar powered electric fencing is another great options\ when it comes to livestock. When you use solar to power your fences, they can be more efficient, adaptable, and eco-friendly. Whether you choose to use a moveable padlock or keep everything permanent, solar can help upgrade your electric fences.

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Agriculture Robots

You read that right. Solar robots are making their way into agriculture. An article from Medium mentions a robot called Ladybird, a solar-powered data-collecting robot. This robot is meant to help make farms more efficient. It can give farmers information about the crops, map the yield, and identify problematic areas. This can help farmer know more about what is going on with their crops and where they can improve.

These are only a few of the many ways that solar power can help in agriculture and farming. While our main focus is solar water pumps, we can create different solar equipment to fit your needs and help keep your land running efficiently and more eco-friendly.

Start shopping through our solar pump systems or start your custom order today. At Advanced Power, we look forward to providing you with solar solutions that benefit you, your work, and this planet. Contact us today with any questions.

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