50 years.50 years--Lindsay Manufacturing Co., Omaha, Neb., began in 1955 with Paul Zimmer's development of an irrigation irrigation, in agriculture, artificial watering of the land. Although used chiefly in regions with annual rainfall of less than 20 in. (51 cm), it is also used in wetter areas to grow certain crops, e.g., rice. towline for rough terrain. In the 1960s, Paul's son Art, designed and built the first Zimmatic center pivot--an electric-drive system with an enclosed en·close also in·close tr.v. en·closed, en·clos·ing, en·clos·es 1. To surround on all sides; close in. 2. To fence in so as to prevent common use: enclosed the pasture. gearbox gear·box n. 1. See transmission. 2. A protective casing for a system of gears. gearbox Noun the metal casing enclosing a set of gears in a motor vehicle Noun 1. , which remains an industry standard today. The company then introduced a long span system, mobile pivots and corner systems. More recent advancements include the Remote Monitor and Alarm Control, the Automated Irrigation Management System and its Telemetry telemetry Highly automated communications process by which data are collected from instruments located at remote or inaccessible points and transmitted to receiving equipment for measurement, monitoring, display, and recording. Network. New technology brought FieldLINK, FieldSentry and MAXfield for custom watering schedules. Today, the company manufactures and markets Zimmatic, Greenfield, Stettyn and Perrot center pivot, lateral move and hose reel A hose reel is a length of hollow plastic or rubber with a nozzle on one end that connects to a water supply. Hose reels are used to move water from one place to another. irrigation systems and GrowSmart controls and provides outsourced manufacturing and production services for other companies. Lindsay has more than 90,000 Zimmatic systems irrigating over 11 million acres of crops in more than 90 countries. |
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