DSS output messages were sent to irrigators at 7:30 am as most
claimed to check their crop and irrigation systems in the morning.
Only 3 irrigators would have preferred an alternative time, early
evening (about 6 pm) as they thought it would allow them to better
cater for evaporation from the current day. Fig. 2 shows an
example of an irrigator’s phone displaying a typical daily message.
As all of the irrigators in this trial were using drip irrigation systems,
the DSS calculated a daily dripper run time (DRT), for each