Cultivated acres
acres in plants, not fence line15
Set your land, your well, your pipe, and your plant. The tool runs the same hydraulics we run across 100+ acres and flags every lever that will not hold at harvest. Farm design is a per-pound cost you lock in once. Get it right on this page instead of in year 2.
Build the farm by touching the farm. Drag the field corner to set acreage. Drag a well sideways to stretch the mainline, drag it up or down to change its gpm, and use + and − to add or drop wells. Tap the pipe cross-sections to size the main, submain, and lateral. The plan is also the risk map: rows fade where the tail starves, pipe wears its velocity color, halos are the zones actually watering.
Density sets everything downstream: water demand, pipe flow, trellis load, and harvest labor all start here.
The well is the budget. Every other water decision spends it.
Pipe is cheap once and expensive forever. Velocity and friction decide what your plants actually drink.
The plant you designed for in June is not the plant you hold up in October. Size for October.
Every lever below is one you will live with for a decade. Green holds at harvest, amber is at its ceiling, red fails before you get there.
Every piece before you are live and running, quantities derived from the levers above. Brands and unit costs verified against distributor listings, July 2026, then adversarially audited; sources and basis per line live in the copy doc. Click a price and type your quote, the totals follow. Excludes buildings, electrical service, drying equipment, trenching, and labor.
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Rated flow is not delivered flow.
On our own 72-plant rows of 1-inch poly, emitters rated 13.2 gph per plant delivered 9.0 measured, a 32 percent tail haircut that no catalog page mentions. The friction math above carries a fitting and barb allowance for exactly that reason, and the lateral lever benchmarks your row against what we measured, not what the box promised.
Same story on the mainline: two zones concurrent on our 6-inch main runs right at the 5.8 ft/s ceiling. Proven practice, zero margin. This tool tells you when you are standing on that line.
The tool sizes it. The walk decides it. Bring these numbers to the call and we will tell you which lever is about to cost you the most per pound.
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Planning tool, not stamped engineering. It sizes the conversation; your installer signs the drawings. Hazen-Williams friction, C 150 PVC and C 140 poly, 10 percent fitting allowance on mains, 25 percent barb allowance on laterals. Buildout costs are editable planning defaults, not quotes.