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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.

NEWA degree day models

Let’s take a closer look at how degree days are used on NEWA. My last post explained what they are, how they are calculated, and why they are used. But where and in what ways can they be accessed?

Every NEWA weather station has a unique ‘home page’ (Figure 1). This is an easy way to access degree day models during the growing season. When you follow a model link from the station page, results are automatically generated using data from that location.

Figure 1. This is the station home page for ‘Ithaca Cornell Orchards’ in New York State.

Degree-day models are also accessible from the navigation drop-down menus (Figure 2). This method requires user input to specify the station and location of interest. This gives you an opportunity to explore historical data, which is not an option when a model is accessed from a station home page as described above.

Figure 2. NEWA degree day tools can be accessed from the navigation drop-down menus.

The NEWA degree day calculator is a popular tool (Figure 3). Once the state, location of interest, desired base model, and start date is specified, custom degree day calculations are generated. For example, when a pre-programmed model is not available you can use the calculator as long as you understand which base temperature is needed. For more information about the degree day calculator, read this great post from April 2016 that provides more details. https://blogs.cornell.edu/yourenewa/2016/04/08/new-degree-day-calculator-on-newa/

Figure 3. The NEWA degree day calculator is a popular tool that provides customized calculations.

Here is a summary of current NEWA models and tools utilizing degree day calculations.

Category Model  Base temperature
Degree day calculator Customized degree day accumulation  User defined
 Degree days  Degree day monthly summaries  User defined
 Apple insects  Apple maggot  50°F/10°C
 Codling moth  50°F/10°C
 Obliquebanded leafroller  43°F/6.1°C
 Oriental fruit moth  45°F/7.2°C
 Plum curculio  50°F/10°C
 Spotted tentiform leafminer  43°F/6.1°C
 Apple diseases  Fire blight shoot symptom development  55°F/12.8°C
 Apple Scab  32°F/0°C
 Grape  Grape berry moth  47.14°F/8.4°F
 Vegetable  Cabbage maggot  39.2°F/4°C
 Onion maggot  40°F/4.4°C

For additional information about degree days on NEWA visit the URL link below.

About Degree days http://newa.cornell.edu/index.php?page=about-degree-days

 

NEWA needs your help – take our online survey!

The Network for Environment and Weather Applications (NEWA) is seeking new and experienced users to take an important online survey — it will only take 10 minutes of your time. Use your smart device, tablet or desktop computer!

Take the survey now:

https://cornell.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0GRlhOIDI5HwbR3

All responses are anonymous and confidential. They will not be shared with any outside group.

Whether you’ve used NEWA’s online pest forecast models for years or have never used NEWA at all, we will benefit from your responses. Why? Because we are building a new website at newa.cornell.edu, one that’ll be as easy to use on your smart phone as on your desktop, and we want to build it the way you want it to be.

NEWA is an online agricultural decision support system that uses real time weather data, streamed over the internet from 573 weather stations throughout the Northeast, Midwest and mid-Atlantic. NEWA provides insect and plant disease pest management tools, degree days, and weather information for growers, consultants, Extension educators, faculty, and others.

NEWA models and resources are available free of charge, and are used to make informed localized crop management decisions. The NEWA website will be upgraded soon and we want to know what users’, new and old, want and need out of the new website.

Thank you for participating!