The majority of farms draw the water used to irrigate their fields from wells so WHY would they ever need to test for the presence of chlorine?
Simple: Every once in a while those wells might get ‘shocked’ with an oxidizer such as chlorine in response to unforeseen events such as regional flooding or the contamination of nearby soil by a ruptured septic line. Events such as those may have resulted in the wells getting contaminated with harmful bacteria.
Strong oxidizers such as chlorine harm plant, animal and aquatic life so the farmer wants to make certain the water going to his herds and getting sprayed over his fields contains as low a disinfectant concentration as possible.
While several methods for testing chlorine levels in farm water exist, and all have merit, the simplest chlorine level testing method for farmers comes in the form of dip-n-read test strips. They require no formal training, cost very little, and give fast, accurate results typically in under a minute. See below for examples of test strips well suited for testing chlorine levels in farm water:
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