Precipitation Management
Weather is one of your biggest and unpredictable risk factors. Having accurate, local weather information can help provide vital data for making irrigation decisions, managing vine growth, integrating pest management plans and, ultimately, improving the quality of the fruit.
Information such as leaf wetness, relative humidity, soil moisture and wetting depth can help predict diseases, future fertilizer and irrigation applications as well as general vineyard activity that involves tractor work. When you’re more informed about the weather forecast in your area, you can make more accurate and timely decisions about your vineyard.
Optimize spraying vineyards with a weather station
Prior to any application, climate conditions should be checked so pesticide applications are optimized. As part of an integrated pest management strategy, investing in a weather station for your vineyard is key when tracking weather for your own microclimate. Here’s how a weather station solution can help you make more informed, weather-related decisions when it comes to spraying applications:
Proactive Approach
Proactive approach
Lack of awareness about winds, temperature and precipitation can turn a day of spraying into a time-consuming ordeal if chemicals drift to an undesirable target. Help manage safe applications and make more informed decisions ahead of time.
More accurate monitoring
Without accurately knowing chill hour accumulation, both the uncertainty of bud break and yield potential could increase costs significantly. Better knowledge of chill hour requirements specific to your vineyard can help you more strategically decide application timing.
Temperature and precipitation management
Both temperature and precipitation influence grapevine growth throughout the season. Among the most important elements that regulate vine and fruit development, weather stations can help you prepare for seasonal cultural practices. Frequent dew or lengthy exposure to any sort of moisture can open the door to diseases. Help manage wetness by tracking weather conditions to help understand the impact of the product being applied.
Optimize equipment
Knowing the precise real-time conditions of your vineyard means you can optimize equipment usage and accurately schedule labour — no more wasting time when you know the heat, wind speed and wind direction in advance. Proactively set up alerts custom to your operation to inform your team of critical UV or weather events.
Why a TELUS Agriculture Weather Station?
The TELUS Agriculture Weather Station is a reliable solution for all crops, providing sophisticated vineyard monitoring and forecasting with the option to connect to a soil probe. Temperature, precipitation, and relative humidity plus your site-specific precision forecast can be monitored on your mobile device or desktop.
Quickly adapt to the uncertainties of nature with real-time information on weather conditions that helps you safeguard your production, boost your overall efficiency, and optimize your vine and fruit protection strategy.
Get the most out of your fields. Learn how a powerful fruit management solution that uses real-time, weather, crop, and soil data can help save you time and money at telus.com/agriculture/weather