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I love the idea, but as a fairly well-off hobby farmer myself, there is no way I would spend that much on this product.

I bought 1 mile of drip tape for $150 off of https://www.berryhilldrip.com

Solar panels are a cheap commodity. There are charge controllers which will only turn on the DC if you're over a certain voltage for the pump.

Again, I love the idea, but its way off on execution at this point.

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Even if the parts were very optimized price/performance wise, would it still be a good idea? I would imagine that each place has a specific biome that is suitable for specific crops, each person has a different amount of acrerage, etc.

You're right that situations are individual - but actually the water distribution side of things can be fairly generic.

But note that drip tape is incompatible with tractor-based agriculture and will only be used with perennial or labor intensive annual crops.

Drip tape sometimes is used in tractor based agriculture. They have a reel mount that lays the tape (usually when plastic is applied to the bed).

Then they throw the tape away at the end of the season.

Commercial strawberry growers use this quite often.

But yes, to your point, high dollar crops.

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