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Remote weather stations give farmers timely advice (AP)

Posted Friday July 11, 2008, 12:48 am, Over one day old

This undated image provided by Michigan State University's Enviro-weather department shows a weather monitoring station in an open field at the Bloom Dairy Farm near coldwater Mich. The station checks wind speed and direction, air temperature, humidity, precipitation, solar radiation, leaf wetness and soil moisture and temperature at two depths. A modem links the station — one of 57 statewide — to Verizon Communications Inc.'s broadband wireless network, which feeds the data every five minutes to Michigan State's Enviro-weather computer programs. They in turn crunch the numbers and give farmers up-to-the-minute online advice on when to plant; apply fertilizers, herbicides and insecticides; irrigate and harvest their crops. All this information is instantly available free to farmers by logging into Enviro-weather's Web site. (AP Photo/Michigan State University)AP - For apple growers like Abby Jacobson, making or losing money depends as much on what they don't do as what they do.




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