Agronomy

As an agronomist, you’re managing a system in constant motion. Weather shifts, soil conditions evolve, crop needs change, and the cost of being wrong includes wasted water, labor, and lost yield. But what if you could finally see how soil, weather, and water are working together to shape crop outcomes in real time? When you see how these forces interact as they happen, you respond faster and make decisions with greater confidence, precision and impact.

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Scaling up shouldn’t mean sacrificing quality

Capturing variability means installing more sensors. But most systems make that hard to scale. Without the right tools, you’re stuck with:

Inconsistent readings across your fields and zones

Data gaps that hide stress signals

Too many hours spent traveling, downloading, and troubleshooting

Tools that don’t match the pace of modern decision-making

When you’re managing variability across multiple zones, fields, and crops, the last thing you need is a sensor that can’t keep up. METER designs a suite of tools that deliver reliability at the scale and precision modern farming demands. Here are just a few:
TEROS 12 sensors measure soil moisture, temperature, and EC directly in the root zone at high accuracy with no calibration drift.
ZL6 loggers automate data capture and send it to ZENTRA cloud in real time, where you can visualize field-specific trends in plant stress, precipitation, and soil conditions across hundreds of sites, all on one dashboard.
ATMOS 41 delivers comprehensive weather monitoring in a single, compact, maintenance-free device: no moving parts, no hassle, just dependable data.
LABROS instruments enable gold-standard lab analysis of soil hydraulic properties, giving you the precision measurements needed to support complex models and high-stakes decisions.
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More coverage means better decisions

Getting started with METER is simple, whether you’re managing a few high-value acres or hundreds of diversified hectares. We make it easy to install, scale, and make data-backed decisions:

Deploy TEROS sensors in representative field zones.

Connect everything to ZL6 and ZENTRA Cloud for real-time access from your phone or laptop.

Use the data to guide irrigation, nutrient, and scouting decisions.

Every acre accounted for.

Every decision backed by data.

You can’t fix what you can’t see. Without reliable, field-specific data, even the best agronomic plans can fail. And that means wasted time, money, and opportunity. Without field-specific, real-time visibility, it’s easy to:
Over-irrigate one block and underfeed another

Miss early stress signals or compaction zones

Waste fuel, labor, and time on guess-based scouting

Fall behind your benchmarks for yield and efficiency
With METER systems, you’re not managing by averages, you’re managing with real-time, site-specific information. The difference is confidence in your data, your processes, and your results.
Your decisions are guided by site-specific, science-grade data

Your operation becomes more efficient, proactive, and resilient

You know what’s happening in the soil, without being in every field
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"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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Agronomy solutions

Stop guessing. Start measuring. Get ahead. Build trust across teams, growers, and stakeholders with data you can trust. Explore METER solutions for high-performance agriculture.

Lab soil characterization

LABROS is an innovative collection of soil science laboratory instruments, each designed to work individually or as part of a larger, automated system. Conduct automated particle size analysis and measure soil moisture release curves, saturated and unsaturated hydraulic conductivity, and thermal conductivity from a single sample.

Streamline your soil characterization methods by using the LABROS suite of laboratory instruments and software to perform accurate, automated analyses from a single soil sample
Measure both saturated and unsaturated hydraulic conductivity from a single soil sample using HYPROP and KSAT laboratory instruments
Get a complete soil moisture release curve using VARIOS and WP4C lab instruments and LABROS software

Plant stress

Use cost-effective solutions from METER to directly measure indicators and causes of plant stress rather than relying on intuition or qualitative assessments of your crops and canopy.

Combine water potential, wind, IR, and stomatal conductance measurements to precisely measure the causes and symptoms of plant water stress.

Canopy productivity

Measure the photosynthetic activity of your plants using simple, labor-saving instruments, and better understand the health and lifecycle of your canopy.

Deploy NDVI sensors for long term canopy monitoring or gather point measurements with the easy to use, handheld AccuPAR LP 80.

Evapotranspiration/Energy Balance

Simplify the radiation and meteorological measurements behind evapotranspiration calculations using accurate, cost-effective instrumentation. Cloud-connected data loggers and software allow you to accurately monitor how much water a crop loses each day to evapotranspiration

Simplify evapotranspiration calculations using ATMOS 41 All In One Weather Stations and ZENTRA Cloud.

Canopy microclimate

Measuring the microclimate with a weather station provides comprehensive data on local atmospheric conditions that directly affect soil and plant processes. Weather stations collect detailed information on temperature, humidity, rainfall, wind speed, and solar radiation, all of which influence soil moisture levels, evaporation rates, and soil temperature.

Combining the precision of wind, radiation, and precipitation sensors above and below a canopy provides a continuous picture of the microclimate below a canopy.

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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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LABROS System

Streamline your laboratory analyses and reduce human error using the innovative LABROS soil science laboratory collection. Perform automated particle size analysis, generate soil moisture release curves, or measure thermal and hydraulic conductivity with METER laboratory instruments designed to produce accurate analyses in a fraction of the time of other methods.

Even better, LABROS instruments can be combined to perform all of these analyses from a single sample, saving time and reducing measurement errors due to variations in sample characteristics.

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LABROS-capable laboratory instruments from METER, including WP4C, KSAT, VARIOS, and PARIO

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