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NEWA 3.0 grape management models are available now

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Updated grape berry moth and grape disease models are available now as part of the NEWA 3.0 online decision support platform. These useful resources, combined with your own user account that saves favorite stations and biofix dates, will make the process of tracking pest and disease risk easier and more efficient.

Watch these videos to quickly get started with NEWA 3.0

Create a NEWA account (5 min)
Configure your NEWA dashboard (7 min)
NEWA dashboard navigation (9 min)

Then watch these videos to familiarize yourself with the updated grape management models

How to use the NEWA grape berry moth model (13 min)
How to use the NEWA grape diseases model (16 min)

Help us out by reporting bugs and problems

NEWA 3.0 is still in beta testing mode and we need your help to crowdsource final issues and bugs that the development team may have missed.

Contact the NEWA Help Desk if you have any problems, have questions or (especially) if you find a bug or glitch. Do this by sending an email to support@newa.zendesk.com with abundant details, screenshots, and other information that might be helpful for a quick resolution.

NEWA is part of the New York State IPM Program and Cornell Cooperative Extension at Cornell University. NYSIPM partners closely with the Northeast Regional Climate Center to make NEWA available to growers in member states nationwide.

Sign up for eNEWA – grape disease and insect pest email notifications

By Dan Olmstead and Tim Weigle

eNEWA is a daily email notification system that provides summarized weather, disease and insect model information based on NEWA tools and resources found at http://newa.cornell.edu. Read this article to learn more.

Daily eNEWA summaries contain current weather and grape pest model information from one or more NEWA stations of your choice, delivered at times of your choice. Each eNEWA notification contains the following information:

eNEWA is a convenient way to get a quick overview of pest potentials for your vineyard operation without clicking through the NEWA website every day.  eNEWA is not meant to replace the NEWA website, but it does provide a quick and easy way to know if you need to visit http://newa.cornell.edu/ for a closer look. For example, if eNEWA reports a potential infection event for one of the grape disease models you can visit the model on NEWA to get additional management information specific to your site.

Sign up for eNEWA

Visit the eNEWA registration page to sign up for a free 2019 subscription. You can choose up to five locations in NY or PA and up to 3 daily email delivery times. Contact the NEWA Help Desk if you have sign up questions.

Sign up for eNEWA

Things to know when signing up for eNEWA

  • eNEWA notifications will start shortly after the growing season begins.
  • An eNEWA email notification is approximately 3 pages in length for each location chosen.

Once during the growing season and again after harvest, you will be asked to complete a short survey to assist NYSIPM, LERGP, and Cornell Cooperative Extension improve the eNEWA notification system.