May 2025 Newsletter

This month I’m writing my newsletter piece from Spain. We are riding (slowly on E-bikes) through a beautiful area known as Catalonia. It’s an interesting mixture of very old stone infrastructure (some dating back to the Romans), some old farming techniques, mixtures of crops: wheat, rice, olives, apples and much more. There’s now a mixture of flood irrigation, sprinkler irrigation and minimal irrigation regimes. The outputs are impressive, the markets look amazing and the end product on the plate too.

However, as established as it all is, and despite them having been doing intensive agriculture for a long time (rice for example was introduced to the area by the Moors in the 8th century); agriculture in Catalonia is being forced to undergo a significant transformation. Regulatory pressures from the EU to reduce environmental impacts (from chemicals etc.) combined with climate change, which is also having a severe impact: are driving the need for change. They’ve had to adapt!

This story is playing out all around the world.

Regulators see the need for change as we realise that some things that have been convenient, are also making life bad for the environment. (Register for our next webinar to hear all about this from our expert guest) HydroTerra’s role in this adaption? We assist, with our specialists and partners, to design bespoke monitoring systems so our clients can understand their operations better and quantify the value of their investments in adapting, to meet regulatory and operational needs.

Adiós!