Annual crops

You’ve put everything into this season. Every pass across the field, every drop of water, every decision—it’s all riding on performance. In high-value, high-pressure farming, there’s no room for guesswork.

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ASSUMPTIONS ARE COSTING YOU MORE THAN YOU THINK

You put too much into your fields to leave anything to chance. In high-performance farming, you know guesswork doesn’t just create risk—it costs you. Without real-time, site-specific data, even small assumptions can have big consequences:

Overwatering and wasted inputs

Nutrient leaching and uneven growth

Undetected stress that robs yield potential

Labor inefficiencies and rising costs

Lower profit margins when you need them most

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BUILT BY SCIENTISTS. PROVEN BY GROWERS.

METER systems are designed to give you reliable data without adding complexity. Here’s how:

TEROS 12 + TEROS 21 sensors measure volumetric water content, temperature, electrical conductivity, and water potential directly in the root zone—so you understand not just how much water is there, but how available it is to your plants.

ATMOS 41 all-in-one weather stations capture critical environmental variables—local to your field–like rainfall, temperature, humidity, solar radiation, and wind speed—so you can track conditions that impact crop growth and disease pressure.

ZENTRA Cloud automatically collects and syncs your sensor data, showing it in simple visual dashboards with field-specific context, trend lines, and alerts—so you can respond fast, without spending hours analyzing raw numbers.

Together, these tools help you know what your crops are experiencing right now, irrigate only where and when it’s needed, catch stress before it becomes yield loss, and cut waste without cutting performance.

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A STRAIGHTFORWARD WAY TO SMARTER FARMING

METER makes it easy to get the clarity you need for more profitable decisions. Just:

Install TEROS sensors in root zones to measure soil moisture, temperature, salinity, and water potential where it matters most.
Deploy ATMOS 41 weather stations to capture on-site rainfall, solar radiation, wind, and humidity—critical for evapotranspiration and disease modeling.
Use ZENTRA Cloud to access real-time dashboards, set alerts, and analyze trends—so you can respond faster and make informed, field-specific decisions.

LESS GUESSWORK. MORE CONTROL. BETTER OUTCOMES.

Inaccurate data costs more than water. Without reliable data, you risk overspending on inputs that never pay off, missed irrigation windows that reduce yield, and surprise stress events that impact crop quality. With a METER system in place, you’re not guessing what your crop needs—you’re seeing it:

TEROS 12 sensors show you how deep water is infiltrating, and the TEROS 21 shows whether your crop can access it.

ATMOS 41 data confirms if weather conditions justify irrigation or delay it.

ZENTRA Cloud brings it all together, allowing you to track patterns, set custom thresholds, and avoid reactive decisions.

The result? More precision. Less waste. And a system that works as hard as you do.

"If you’re really trying to refine your irrigation management, really trying to stretch your water, having a soil moisture sensor in the field, getting as direct a measurement as you can is likely going to help you refine irrigation the most."

Agroclimate Extension Specialist Matt Yost, PhD | Utah State University

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Complete irrigation decision-making pkg
Soil moisture monitoring
Atmospheric evapotranspiration
Plant stress monitoring

Complete irrigation decision-making pkg

Without knowing the full water balance, irrigation decisions become guesswork—and that can cost you in yield, resources, and lost nutrients. METER gives you the complete picture by combining soil moisture (VWC), water potential, salinity, and atmospheric data into one simple, field-ready system. With these insights, you can dial in exactly when to water, how much to apply, and how to avoid nutrient leaching below the root zone—all from anywhere, through ZENTRA Cloud.

Soil moisture monitoring

Precision irrigation isn’t just about when to water—it’s about understanding how water moves through your system. METER helps you do both by measuring volumetric water content (VWC) and water potential together, giving you a clear view from application to root zone availability. With this insight, you can make faster, more confident decisions—cutting unnecessary water use, preventing nutrient loss, and keeping your crop on track for maximum yield.

Water content

Water potential

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Atmospheric evapotranspiration

Your crop doesn't care what the weather station a mile away says. When every irrigation counts, relying on off-site weather data can lead to missed cues, wasted water, and stressed plants. Even small microclimate shifts can impact evapotranspiration—and your crop's performance. METER puts highly accurate ET data right in your fields, so you can make confident, timely decisions based on the conditions your plants are actually experiencing—not just what’s happening nearby.

Evapotranspiration

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Plant stress monitoring

If you see plant stress, you’re already behind. By the time stress is visible in your crop, yield potential may already be lost. METER’s canopy-level monitoring tools help you detect plant stress early—before it impacts quality, harvest timing, or revenue. With proactive, real-time insight into how your plants are responding to environmental pressure, you can take action when it counts—not after.

Above-canopy weather monitoring

ATMOS 41 Gen 2 Z
ATMOS 41W Z

Canopy temperature

IRT Z

In-canopy atmospheric monitoring

ATMOS 14 Z

Stomatal conductance

SC-1 Leaf Porometer

Volumetric water content

TEROS 54 Z

Water potential

TEROS 22 Z

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ZENTRA System

Customize your data collection and logging solution by combining multiple METER sensors with the ZL6 Data Logger and ZENTRA Cloud. ZENTRA stores your data in the cloud, allowing easy access to your data and near-real-time reports from all of your data loggers.

Avoid costly field visits by accessing your data from any web-connected device. Analyze it with ZENTRA Cloud’s built-in visualization tools, and easily share insights without tracking down log files on individual computers.

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