AgroMET Pest Forecasts Come to Connecticut
Product Used: AgroMET
It hurts when codling moths riddle your apples, powdery mildew blasts your grapes, or anthracnose takes over your turf. Sophisticated weather stations can pick up on those variables and even predict when and where pests will most likely erupt. "But the data the National Weather Service tracks for an entire region probably isn't what happened on your farm or ballfield," says the University of Connecticut's Mary Concklin, a cooperative extension specialist in integrated pest management, or IPM. That's why Concklin is spearheading installations of 40 new RainWise AgroMET weather stations statewide. These small but powerful stations will stream real-time pest forecasts to local farmers via the internet, thanks to NEWA, the Network for Environment and Weather Applications with 250 small yet sophisticated weather stations in a network spanning Pennsylvania to Vermont. NEWA's forecasts provide a heads-up on which pests are on the move and take whether they're likely to cause harm. The AgroMET is the official weather station authorized by NEWA.
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AgroMET Weather Station$1,517.00
