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Toro Launches New High Performance Irrigation Valve for Ag Market

Toro Ag is setting a new standard for valve performance with the new Toro® 900 Series Valve. Anchored by an innovative, patent-pending valve seat design, the 900 Series Valve gives growers an efficient and reliable foundation for irrigation system control, while offering designers flexible valve sizing to fit a wide range of applications. All these benefits are bundled in a simple, 4-piece valve assembly that allows for easy in-field maintenance. This valve strikes a great balance between simplicity and innovation,” says Adam Setzler, product manager for Toro’s Ag Business. “The distinctive curved profile of the valve seat where the diaphragm meets the valve body creates an easier path for water through the valve, reducing pressure loss and allowing the downstream irrigation system to reach operational flow rates more quickly. This subtle design improvement has an oversized impact on valve performance, while keeping the simplicity and effectiveness of the 4-piece valve

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Toro Ag Launches Transpira™ to Deliver New Insights to Growers

Toro Ag is excited to introduce Toro® Transpira™ – a new platform for measuring plant water consumption via direct plant sensing. Through a collaboration with technology partner Treetoscope Ltd, Toro brings state of the art technology to growers across the United States, Canada, and Mexico. Toro Transpira adds to the company’s growing range of crop monitoring, decision support and automation solutions, meeting an increasing need for reliable and actionable information on crop water usage and plant health. “With Toro Transpira, we are measuring what matters,” says Adam Setzler, product manager for Toro’s Ag Business. “What makes the application of this technology unique is that we are measuring water usage directly from the plant using a device that is simple to install and manage. This provides growers with a view of the evapotranspiration process in their field that is not available from other monitoring tools on the market.” Advantages of Toro Transpira

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