Reinke ReinCloud

Remote centre pivot control that is priced by the data device on the pivot, not by the acre

As of 1 September 2026, Reinke ReinCloud's pricing is not published; the vendor quotes on request. Reinke pivot owners get remote start, stop and monitoring through ReinCloud. Softwr lists it under Agriculture. Reinke ReinCloud is made by Reinke Manufacturing Company, Inc., available on Web, iOS, Android.

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Overview

What Reinke ReinCloud does

ReinCloud is Reinke Manufacturing’s remote management platform for its centre pivot and lateral irrigation machines. It shows pivot position, direction, pressure, application depth and fault status, and lets an operator start, stop, reverse or change a programme from a phone rather than driving out to the panel. It pairs with Reinke RPM control panels, and the ReinCloud 3 release extended the variable-rate and water management tooling. Reinke is one of the four significant American pivot manufacturers alongside Valley, Zimmatic and T-L. The commercial fact buyers miss is that ReinCloud is priced per data collection device, with annual and period-based subscription options, and the panel generation on the machine determines what you can do. Variable rate irrigation requires an RPM Preferred or RPM AnnexPF panel; the Advanced Plus panel is ReinCloud-ready for remote access but is not the same capability. So the software tier you can buy is set by hardware you may have bought a decade ago, and upgrading a panel on an existing pivot is a field electrical job, not a licence change. Buyers are irrigated row-crop farms in the American Midwest and High Plains and export markets where Reinke dealers operate. The trade-off is the usual one for manufacturer-tied irrigation software: it manages Reinke machines competently and other brands not at all, so a farm that has bought pivots from two manufacturers over twenty years runs two apps and reconciles them by hand.

What people use it for

A farm with pivots spread across thirty miles of ground that currently drives to each panel after a storm
An operator who needs to shut a pivot down at 2am when pressure drops rather than losing a night of water
A grower under a water allocation who needs applied depth records per pass
A dealer diagnosing a fault remotely before deciding whether to send a truck

Where it falls short

Concrete and checkable, so you can decide whether any of them matter to you. This is the half of a review a vendor will not write about Reinke ReinCloud.

Subscriptions are charged per data collection device, so cost scales linearly with pivot count and a fifteen-machine operation pays fifteen subscriptions for one farm.
What ReinCloud can do is dictated by the RPM panel generation on each pivot, and variable rate needs an RPM Preferred or AnnexPF panel, so unlocking features on older machines means a field electrical upgrade rather than a software purchase.
It manages Reinke equipment only, so a farm that has bought pivots from more than one manufacturer over the years runs a separate app per brand with no combined water record.
No pricing is published; subscriptions are quoted through dealers, which means neighbouring farms can be paying different rates for identical hardware with no way to check.
Reinke is a privately held family manufacturer competing on software against Lindsay and Valmont, both listed companies with far larger digital budgets, so feature pace in the app lags what the bigger two ship.

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What people choose instead of Reinke ReinCloud

Each pairing was judged by two reviewers asking whether a buyer would genuinely weigh the two against each other. The ones that failed were deleted rather than published.

Reinke ReinCloudvs
Valley Irrigation
Valley Irrigation: Larger installed base and a more developed remote management platform for centre pivots
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WiseConn DropControl
WiseConn DropControl: If the irrigation is drip or micro rather than pivot
Reinke ReinCloudvs
CropX
CropX: Soil-driven scheduling that sits above whichever pivot brand you own

Pricing

What Reinke ReinCloud costs

Taken from the vendor's own pricing page. Prices move, so check before you buy.

ReinCloud

On request

Priced per data collection device on each machine
Annual and period-based subscription options
Capability depends on the RPM panel generation fitted
Variable rate requires RPM Preferred or RPM AnnexPF
Sold through Reinke dealers, no public rate card

Capabilities

Features

Remote pivot control
Start, stop, reverse and change programmes from a phone or browser
Position and status monitoring
Live pivot angle, direction, pressure and application depth
Fault alerts
Push notification on shutdown, pressure loss or safety trip
Variable rate irrigation
Prescription application by sector and span, requiring RPM Preferred or AnnexPF panels
Water application records
Depth applied per pass for allocation reporting and agronomic review
Multi-machine dashboard
All pivots on an operation in one view rather than one panel at a time
Scheduling
Programmes set ahead rather than adjusted at the machine
Dealer diagnostics
Remote fault investigation before a service call is dispatched

Answered, with sources

Questions people ask

Each answer names the page it came from, so you can check it rather than take our word for it.

How is ReinCloud priced?

Per data collection device on each machine, with annual and period-based subscription options quoted through dealers. Reinke publishes no rates.

Can I run variable rate irrigation?

Only with an RPM Preferred or RPM AnnexPF panel. The Advanced Plus panel supports ReinCloud remote access but not the same variable rate capability.

Does it control non-Reinke pivots?

No. It is tied to Reinke RPM panels.

What happens if the subscription lapses?

The pivot keeps irrigating from its panel, but remote monitoring and control stop, which is the function you bought it for.

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