Ridder and H.E. Anderson Partner for Integrated Fertigation Control
Ridder’s booth at Cultivate’26. | Ridder
Ridder has formed a new partnership with H.E. Anderson that brings fertigation and climate control together on a single platform.
Through this collaboration, growers can now operate H.E. Anderson fertigation skids directly from the Ridder HortiMaX control system, using Ridder as the management layer for how they irrigate and feed their crop.
The partnership began with a gap that Travis Dixon, from Ridder, kept hearing about from growers across the U.S. market.
“Our customers weren’t asking for new hardware. They were asking for the systems they already trusted to talk to each other,” says Dixon. “H.E. Anderson builds fertigation equipment that growers rely on every day. It made far more sense to bring those skids under Ridder management than to ask anyone to replace what was working.”
Dixon brought the idea to Randy Nester at H.E. Anderson, and the two began working through what a real integration would require.
Over a series of technical sessions, the teams aligned on how the Ridder platform would communicate with the H.E. Anderson skids, what the grower would see and control from Ridder HortiMaX, and how to phase the capability so that customers could adopt it without disrupting existing operations. The result is a more connected approach to water and nutrient management. With irrigation strategy, climate data, and fertigation hardware working from the same platform, growers gain improved control, greater precision, and more efficient use of water and inputs, without managing separate systems or separate interfaces.
Ridder and H.E. Anderson announced their progress publicly at Cultivate’26 in Columbus, OH. This is the first step of a broader roadmap, and both companies will be announcing further details in the coming months.
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