Benefits of irrigation management
Improve water-use efficiency by 10% or more, worth an average of $250/hectare each season.
Reduce energy and pumping costs by irrigating only when it's needed.
Protect yield and quality with early warning of crop water stress.
GoField is Goanna Ag’s irrigation management solution. It is the world's most advanced irrigation scheduling solution, uniting in-field soil moisture sensors, weather data, crop growth stages and two decades of agronomic research into one clear recommendation: when, where and how much to irrigate.
GoField is used across more than 250,000 hectares of cotton, grain and broadacre cropping country, and is available whether you're running a small block or a large-scale operation.
How GoField works
GoField integrates data from multiple in-field and external sources to generate precise, crop-specific irrigation recommendations, considering current weather conditions, soil moisture levels, crop growth stage and canopy temperature stress indicators to help your crops receive water at the right time, every time.
Soil moisture probes - Strategically placed soil moisture probes measure moisture content at multiple soil depths, tracking water-holding capacity over time to determine current soil moisture status and irrigation need.
Canopy temperature sensors - These monitor crop canopy temperature to assess plant stress, flagging whether a crop is under stress from insufficient moisture and requires irrigation.
Weather and climate data - GoField draws on real-time temperature, solar radiation, humidity, wind speed and rainfall forecast data to understand current conditions and predict how they'll affect crop water demand. GoField also incorporates climatic forecasts to ahead, canopy temperature stress and crop evapotranspiration predictions.
Crop and satellite data - Crop type, growth stage and stage-specific water requirements are layered in, so every irrigation recommendation is tailored to what's actually growing in your field.
The top 5 traits of cotton's best irrigators
In this High-Performance Irrigation Masterclass, Goanna Ag breaks down the five key traits that set high-performing irrigators apart. Drawing on years of real paddock data from GoField, our irrigation management solution, we've identified the patterns and practices that consistently drive better irrigation outcomes across cotton crops.
Accessing your data
Goanna Ag’s app is designed to provide you with an enhanced and seamless irrigation scheduling experience. We have incorporated an array of innovative features to cater to your unique needs.
We empower you with an expanded array of choice, granting you the ability to tailor the app to align with your specific requirements.
Gain valuable knowledge and insights through our comprehensive resources, including tutorials, tips, and expert guidance.
You can seamlessly generate end of season reports on your irrigation schedules and performance.
To aid the transition to the new platform, we've prepared diverse training materials that include tutorial videos, FAQs, and email for direct enquiries.
To learn more about all the new features and benefits of our platform, watch our video.
Our customers
"Morella Ag have dealt with Goanna Ag since its inception. Like now it was cutting edge with technology providing farmers with information to make better decisions. Back at the start it was the neutron moisture probe, it really helped time our irrigations better particularly after rain events this helped drive moisture and nutrient efficiencies. It's amazing how far it has come now we have an app which we look at too gives us our data, back then we were getting faxed the information and we would be sweating on it coming through when it was hot!
I have to congratulate the Goanna team as they have sought out great staff to help build the company to what it is today. When you contact them you are always greeted with a friendly helpful person on the other end. I'm sure Goanna Ag will keep driving innovation in the ag tech sector and I am excited to see what is coming up."
Tom Coulton, Morella Ag, Goondiwindi
Frequently asked questions
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GoField is irrigation scheduling solution that helps you irrigated optimally through informed, data-driven irrigation decisions. It combines weather data, soil moisture measurements, plant canopy temperature and other in-field data with industry-first algorithms to improve water-use efficiency, protect yield and cut resource waste.
Key components:
Data collection - from weather stations, satellite imagery, soil moisture sensors and crop canopy temperature sensors
Data analysis - algorithms assess soil moisture, weather forecasts, canopy temperature, crop type and growth stage
User interface - access via mobile webapp or web portal, anywhere with an internet connection
Decision support - clear recommendations on when to irrigate
Reporting and analytics - historical data and reports to track irrigation performance over time
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Improved crop yield - water delivered at the right time supports better crop health and higher yields
Water savings - precise scheduling reduces water use and production costs
Lower operational costs - savings on labour, energy and water
Resource efficiency - smarter allocation of water and energy
Reduced environmental impact - less over-irrigation and runoff
Increased profitability - from better yields, lower costs and stronger crop quality
Data-driven decisions - real-time and historical field data at your fingertips
Scalability - suited to small blocks and large commercial operations alike
Regulatory compliance - easier to meet water-use and environmental standards
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Yes. GoField is built to support a wide range of crops, the platform supports over 27 different crop types, including cotton, corn, sorghum and soybean, with real-time monitoring and data-driven insights tailored to each crop's specific needs.
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Yes. GoField's mobile webapp gives you access to your irrigation data anytime, anywhere, with an internet connection, so you can monitor and manage irrigation on the go. The webapp was relaunched this season with a customisable interface, a training and resource library, and the ability to generate end-of-season reports.
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We provide tutorial videos for visual learners, a comprehensive FAQ section for quick answers, and direct email support for individual assistance, so you have the resources you need, whether you're new to GoField or a long-time user.
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Pricing depends on your specific setup and needs. Contact our sales team for a tailored quote, including subscription plans, pricing tiers and any additional services.
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GoField continuously integrates real-time weather data and forecast (temperature, humidity, rainfall, wind speed, solar radiation) with live soil moisture, canpy temperature and crop readings and crop-specific models. When conditions shift suddenly, a heatwave or unplanned rainfall. GoField updates its irrigation recommendations automatically, so you're never scheduling off stale data.
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Yes. GoField supports compliance and sustainability through:
Precise water management that avoids over-irrigation
Reduced runoff and erosion, protecting waterways and soil health
Lower energy use for pumping, reducing your carbon footprint
End-of-season compliance reporting
Soil health protection, reducing salinity and erosion risk
Historical data logging for long-term trend analysis and planning
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GoField's advanced, research-backed algorithms turn real-time weather, soil moisture, satellite and crop data into precise irrigation recommendations, removing the guesswork. The canopy temperature sensor is a multi-pixel thermal lens and algorithm that differentiates between plant and soil, enabling earlier-season recommendations without needing to continually relocating the sensor throughout the season.
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Yes. GoField scales from a few acres to hundreds of hectares, it provides accurate irrigation scheduling information regardless of the size with a customisable webapp, per-device pricing that keeps it accessible for smaller operations, and localised climate and soil data for accuracy wherever you farm.
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Contact our sales team to find the right GoField setup for your farm, whatever the scale.
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Independently Verified
We know that there are all sorts of claims about the benefits of new technologies and sometimes the results don’t match the hype. That’s why we rely on independent research and assessment to validate our claims.
As part of the Smarter Irrigation for Profit Phase 1 (SIP1), the CSIRO conducted on-farm trials of GoField technology in different cotton growing valleys in Australia. The overarching philosophy was to provide farmers the opportunity to use an irrigation scheduling tool that is based on real-time monitoring of a crop’s stress levels and need for water.
The overall findings were:
By supporting more accurate monitoring of a crop’s stress levels and need for water, GoField can increase cotton yields while reducing workforce and water costs; and
Incorporating GoField into irrigation management has the potential to generate an additional $152 per hectare (2.5 acres) per season without considering benefit of redeployed water.
RTI International
North Carolina based global research group, RTI International, recently published “Prospective Analysis of WaterWise” (Petrusa et al, 2021) assessing the technology in our solution and concluded that the positive impact to growers through a combination of increased production and reduced expenses is in the vicinity of 12% WUE increase and 14% Gross Profit uplift.
Meanwhile, Cotton Inc, have set an industry goal for US cotton to reduce water use by 18% over the next 10 years, and much of that saving will be achieved by increasing the uptake of data backed irrigation scheduling.
In fact, referencing the research report “Sustainability trends and natural resource use in US cotton production” (Daystar, Barnes, Hake & Kurtz, 2017), they report that growers using sensor based irrigation achieve 100lbs per acre (18kg/hectare) yield increase compared to those not using sensors.
Both these papers quantify the value of our approach and demonstrate return on investment well in excess of 10x.