Wow! There are now 531 weather stations connected into NEWA. Just a short time ago, I was planning a post to tell you NEWA had turned 400. How is this phenomenal growth possible? It was made possible by each, and every, one of you! And…also, by Michigan State University and The Ohio State University joining NEWA.

Please join me in welcoming Ohio and Michigan to NEWA. In Ohio, Matt Wallhead, postdoctoral research associate with the USDA ARS, and Melanie Ivey, fruit pathologist with The OSU, paved the way for the NEWA OH partnership. We soon hope to stream data from all their research stations through NEWA.

A resounding welcome goes out to Michigan! Michigan State University has Enviro-weather, a system similar in many ways to NEWA! Please visit Enviro-weather, https://enviroweather.msu.edu/, and test drive their tools. Jeff Andresen, Michigan state climatologist and director of Enviro-weather, and Beth Bishop, Enviro-weather coordinator, have made this collaboration possible, with the support of their apple industry.

We are very much looking forward to building our collaboration for a bright future full of digital agriculture apps to help producers practice IPM and grow healthy and healthful crops.

This post was contributed by Juliet Carroll, Fruit IPM Coordinator, New York State IPM Program, Cornell University, jec3@cornell.edu.