Irrigation

• CARLSBAD, Calif., Jan. 31, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Products from smart irrigation industry pioneer Calsense have been integrated into Land F/X , the world's largest software company serving the landscape architecture and irrigation system design community.
• Using Land F/X software , designers can now easily access and specify Calsense products .
• Calsense Chief Technical Expert David Meehan said the company was thrilled with the integration of Calsense products into the Irrigation F/X workflow.
• "We're extremely pleased and proud to be able to bring Calsense products to Land F/X users," he said.

• AvidWater, LLC promotes current Director of Sales and Marketing, Frank Malone Toves, to position of President effectively immediately.
• Frank Toves
  AvidWater, a leading design-build agriculture irrigation construction and services company, is pleased to announce the appointment of Frank Toves as its new President.
• Frank brings a wealth of experience to the role, having demonstrated exceptional leadership and achievements in the agriculture irrigation industry.
• Frank Toves officially assumes the role of President effectively immediately and will report to Richard Klapholz, the global CEO of Rivulis Irrigation.

• But no, this was not Just Stop Oil back for another round, nor the result of a disgruntled golfer.
• Javelinas (or peccaries) are small but feisty relatives of the domesticated pig, found across the southern US and into South America.
• A study of wild boar in Spain revealed that they raided golf courses less often during the COVID lockdown, when hunting was curtailed.

The bogey of management

• But these benefits depend on good management to create a mix of habitats, including flower-filled rough grass, scrub and woodland.
• Wildlife-friendly golf course management can even benefit the game itself.
• Water draining from these courses may be polluted with pesticides or nutrients that alter the algae in adjacent streams.

• French golfers have it easy compared with some of the creatures roaming the fairways in other countries.
• Florida’s golfers, for example, would do well to keep an eye out for alligators.
• The Arizona course staff were understandably horrified by the damage done, but the javelinas have their fans too.

Rewild the fairway

• In the US, the total number of golf courses is declining, with more closures than openings since 2006 – many of them abandoned with no new purpose in mind.
• Reversing the drainage from derelict courses could create new wetland habitats capable of stalling floods during heavy rainfall.
• Projects to reverse this damage and rewild golf courses are springing up in England, the US and Australia.

• The usefulness of pigs and their kin for grubbing up the land is widely recognised in rewilding projects.
• It has become fashionable among opponents of rewilding to criticise this approach to nature conservation for taking land out of food production.

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• With an intuitive question and response user interface, Cal is integrated into the new Calsense Connect™ unified user platform, available on all devices.
• The user interface provided by Calsense Connect focuses on ease of use, offering real-time management and monitoring of all connected smart irrigation controllers.
• Cal and Calsense Connect were unveiled today by smart irrigation pioneer Calsense at the ongoing Irrigation Show and Education Week 2023 in San Antonio, Texas.
• "Our new Irrigation Assistant Cal is an example of Calsense's commitment to technology leadership in the smart irrigation industry, and our emphasis on the enhanced user experience," said Calsense Chief Product & Technology Officer Larry Heminger.