NEWA – weather app’s for IPM
newa.cornell.edu
Data collected
precipitation
temperature
leaf wetness
relative humidity
solar radiation
wind speed
wind direction
•Web-based weather station data.
•Weather summaries & degree days.
•IPM forecast models and crop models.
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Links to
National Weather Service products
NOAA’s drought information
NY NASS weather stats
NYS IPM Program’s
Network for Environment & Weather Applications
In collaboration with the Northeast Regional Climate Center and RainWise, Inc
http://newa.cornell.edu
New website
• Easier navigation
• Header menu and
footer on all web pages
• Launched Nov 2009
http://newa.cornell.edu
RainWise weather stations
• Internet router device
– real time data
– sent directly to NRCC database
– online dashboard
• Cornell ftp software upgrade
– data QC
– export feature
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NEWA network expansion
• 6 in VT
– UVM & VT TF Growers Assoc.
• >10 in MA
– UMass Extension
• >4 in New England
– Eco-orchard project
• 9 in Seneca County
– Natural Resources Conservation Service
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Data
• Gridded forecast data
– being used in models
• Quality control
– sister stations
– auto-messages
• Fuzzy logic model
– Leaf wetness estimation
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Potato & tomato LB DSS
• Late blight decision support system
– Interactive simulation built by Bill Fry
We now link to the late blight simulation created
by William Fry, the Late Blight Decision
Support System (DSS)
http://newa.cornell.edu
Apple disease models
Interactive, mini-expert systems with 5-day forecasts.
• Apple Scab
– Ascospore maturity
– Infection events
– Events log
• Fire Blight
– Infection risk (Cougar blight)
– Strep spray & shoot blight utilities
• Sooty blotch/flyspeck
– Infection risk
http://newa.cornell.edu
Apple insect models
Interactive, mini-expert systems.
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Codling moth
Oriental fruit moth
Obliquebanded leafroller
Plum curculio
Spotted tentiform leafminer
Apple maggot
Apple models are being woven into a tree fruit IPM website
with pesticide selection tool & guidelines.
http://newa.cornell.edu
Grape models
Interactive, mini-expert systems with 5-day forecasts.
• Grape Berry Moth – launched 5/10
• DMcast (downy mildew) – launched 4/10
• Grape Diseases – revision in the works
– Current page will become an Event Log
– Powdery mildew primary infection
– Phomopsis cane and leaf spot
– Black rot
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Crop production models
• Apple physiology
– Apple evapotransporation
• (not yet live)
– Apple carbohydrate model
• for thinning (not automated)
Biggest single value and reason I invested in a weather
station is the carbohydrate model produced by Dr.
Terence Robinson for apple. Has a major impact on
the total crop value. Best information of any kind
anywhere in the world for apples!!!
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Future NEWA projects
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Grants submitted.
• Vegetable model upgrades
– PMEP & Cornell Guidelines
– Vegetable IPM website
• Invasive monitoring alert system
…that I know of!
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Funding for NEWA projects
newa.cornell.edu
New York State IPM Program
Northeast Regional Climate Center
Cornell Cooperative Extension
RainWise, Inc.
Pesticide Management Education Program
New York State Department of Agriculture & Markets
New York Farm Viability Institute
Northeast SARE
Northeastern IPM Center
USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture
Northeast Center for Risk Management Education
Natural Resources Conservation Service
New York State Agricultural Experiment Station
Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station
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