New products for WSU AgWeatherNet
Washington Ag March 3, 2010 In an effort to provide valuable data to their technologically savvy clientele, the Washington State University AgWeatherNet development team has released two new weather products, as well as a third product developed by 4Quarters, Inc.. The first product is a new Web site, designed and formatted specifically for mobile computing devices. William Corsi, technical coordinator of AgWeatherNet, says the AgWeatherNet mobile Web site will transform how the agricultural industry accesses real-time weather information. Corsi says the mobile site puts access to real-time weather and modeling information at the user’s finger tips. The mobile version will work on any mobile device featuring a Web browser. The second product AgWeatherNet has developed is a grape cold-damage decision-aid tool. Greg Martin has the details. Gary Grove, WSU AgWeatherNet Director and Professor of Plant Pathology, says this tool provides temperature minima at many of the networks weather stations in wine country, which can be used to identify potential areas of bud, bark and wood damage. He says that information is critical for the adjustment of pruning levels and the determination of the necessity for vineyard retraining, costly and disruptive undertakings for Washington growers. The third product is AgAletz developed by 4Quarters Inc of Yakima, which employs a live data feed from AgWeatherNet to mobile devices.” ?AgWeatherNet's expansion in western Washington continues and the system is now comprised of 133 monitoring stations throughout the state. I’m Bob Hoff and that’s Washington Ag Today on the Northwest Ag Information Network.
