Soil moisture sensors can be used by irrigators to help achieve efficient irrigation schedules. A survey of irrigators in 1993, however, revealed that less than seven percent of irrigators routinely used a soil moisture sensing device of any kind to schedule irrigation. Given the potential benefits accruing from their correct use a project was proposed which could develop an objective, systematic method to aid selection of a device by an irrigator. It was proposed to develop a value selection method in which the key attributes of most value to decision makers could be identified and weighted.