IRROMETER

The IRROMETER Company was founded in Riverside, CA in 1951. While at the Citrus Experiment Station at the University of California Riverside in the late 1940's, inventor Tom Prosser witnessed crude, homemade tensiometers in use and immediately saw the potential for farmers to use these instruments as tools for scheduling irrigation. Prosser set about designing user friendly, robust versions of these homemade instruments which could be economically manufactured for sale, and in 1951 the IRROMETER (or "irrigation meter") was born, fulfilling Prosser's vision of a commercially available Tensiometer.