Lumo

05/20/2026

"I would get excited and turn it on at 2 in the morning."

That's Roberto, the irrigator at Shafer Vineyards.

Roberto and Lolo, the foreman, cover four ranches: Borderline, Rustler, Ridgeback and Schoolbus. 58 blocks across 96 acres, all running on Lumo.

That kind of expansion is driven from the bottom up, by the people who use the system every day.

Maria Silvia, our Customer Support Specialist, interviewed them in Spanish a while back about how they’ve been able to get such great value out of the system.

Here’s what they had to say:

Shafer Vineyards put Lumo on Borderline. Then expanded to Rustler, Ridgeback and Schoolbus. That kind of expansion is driven from the bottom up, by irrigators.

04/29/2026

Watching the first scheduled irrigation at a vineyard in Edna Valley.

It's a beautiful thing.

04/20/2026

Beautiful Spring morning in the mountains overlooking the Napa Valley.

This top-tier Cabernet vineyard is going on its second year with Lumo. They’re impressed with the labor savings and how easy the system is to use.

It's a mountain cab vineyard. Makes great wine.

04/13/2026

If there’s one word that’s always been at the heart of the work we do at Lumo it’s Accountability.

When we were first getting started, it was the word that kept coming up in every grower conversation.

“I need a system with built-in accountability.”
“I don’t just need automation. I need accountability. Something I can rely on.”

Not just a timer. Not just a way to open and close valves. But a system that could prove that it was running as intended and delivering water as expected.

All of the good outcomes – labor savings, increased precision, lower risk, greater control, reduced pumping costs - they’re all downstream of accountability.

Because they all hinge on whether the grower can actually trust the data.

Is this something I can rely on?
Can I trust that I’ll get a notification as soon as something goes wrong?
Is this really gonna help me sleep at night or end up being one more thing to worry about?

Earning that trust. Becoming that dependable system. Helping growers sleep better at night. It always comes back to that one word we heard so often in the beginning.

Accountability. Accountability. Accountability.

You simply can’t irrigate with a high degree of precision and performance without it.

04/10/2026

New Napa install by Morgan Jernigan.

Photo from Andy White and a bit of commentary too:

“Beautiful ranch. Great work from the vineyard team, who’s optimistic about the future quality of grapes and wine that will be coming out of this vineyard. Turkey's gobbling and cows grazing in the surrounding hills. Lively Spring time feel.”

04/08/2026

Ducks? No, no, no. Around here, we get our domes in a row.

03/31/2026

Irrigation ex*****on data is operational.

At Lumo, we track flow and pressure on every irrigation at a block level.

That data is powerful because it gives you a complete picture of your system health and performance.

It’s not just a proxy for something you care about in the field. It’s not a spot measure or a slice of the pie that might not be representative of the whole.

It’s objective performance data. It’s fundamental to running your system safely and efficiently. It’s the ground truth about what’s happening in the field.

As Mark Greenspan, the President of Advanced Viticulture, put it in a recent blog post, “it’s information you can use.”

It’s often claimed that growers aren’t interested in more data. But we hear the opposite view directly from growers all the time.

Growers want to know where they stand on their water usage.

They want to be capturing this data so they can dial in their precision and make smarter decisions.

They understand that having this dataset will put them in a better position to leverage the power of artificial intelligence as the technology continues to advance and spread across agriculture.

It’s important to not paint all data with a broad brush. Some of it is just more noise. Some of it is cool to see at first but isn’t actionable enough in the end.

And if it fails to lead to a different action or outcome in the field, then it has no value to the grower.

This is what makes irrigation performance data different.

It does lead to different actions in the field.

To scheduling irrigations to make up for lost volume from clogs or tanks running dry or pump performance issues.

To running fewer blocks at once, or different combinations, to achieve better DU.

To shifting to irrigating overnight and at off-peak times to save water and money on electricity.

To performing maintenance and making infrastructure upgrades in a rigorous, data driven manner.

To catching problems as soon as they happen, rather than after the fact, reducing the risk to your crop and critical infrastructure.

Block-level irrigation data isn’t a nice-to-have.

It's the foundation of irrigating with higher performance and greater precision.

03/24/2026

Reliability is the most important thing in agtech hardware.

It’s the key to unlocking the value of irrigation automation for growers.

You need to be able to rely on:

- Valves opening and closing at the right times
- Pumps turning on and hitting the right pressure
- The system sending you an alert if something goes wrong
- The data you’re seeing on your phone being trustworthy and accurate

If you can’t rely on these things, then you’re going to send someone to check the valves and the pump and the lines, and all of the labor savings go out the window.

That’s why reliability is an obsession at Lumo.

That’s why flow meters are built into our smart valves in one integrated unit. Not wired in after the fact.

That’s why our average response time to incoming inquiries from customers was 11 minutes and 18 seconds last season.

For too long, growers haven’t been able to trust automation. They haven’t been able to rely on it operating correctly when they needed it the most, and they haven’t had the visibility required to build trust in the data.

Without that visibility, that trust, the whole value proposition falls apart.

That’s why we engineered reliability in from the start.

And continue to obsess over it today.

03/04/2026

Precision Irrigation Automation

That’s one good way to describe what we do at Lumo because it captures the two main ways we drive hard ROI for growers.

It’s improved crop outcomes through more precise irrigation ex*****on.

And it’s labor savings through automation they can actually trust and rely on.

We drive greater profitability by increasing revenue and decreasing costs.

That’s what precision irrigation automation is all about.

It’s really that simple.

03/03/2026

“With Lumo, now we can fully automate this situation to where you can start making some money here.”

That’s Chris Harless, our Regional Manager on the Central Coast, who happens to be a huge believer in the power of block-level irrigation data to improve on-farm profitability and to help farm managers run their irrigation systems with high performance and precision.

“We’re gathering all this data, and not only gathering it, but putting it in a way that’s easy for farmers to understand and make decisions. In a perspective that makes sense for farm managers, that helps them become more efficient in their entire system…it’s awesome.”

02/26/2026

“ Getting that return on investment as early as possible is the entire ball game, especially with the industry where it's at.”

Aaron Rubin, our Senior Customer Success Manager, is obsessed with delivering value to growers fast.

On their very first irrigation whenever possible.