Mobile disease alerts for cabage growers

Brassica growers, (farmers who grow plants which include broccoli, kale, cauliflower, cabbage), will be able to sign up for free SMS alerts of high disease pressurethis season, following the launch of a free service from Syngenta Crop Protection.

"The Brassica Disease Warning System uses spore trapping and disease monitoring information combined with in-field weather data. It will provide a risk assessment for Alternaria, White Blister and Ringspot, based on field traps across Lincolnshire, the northeast and south east,"

|via Farmers Weekly Interactive]

emily | 3:51 PM | SMS and Business |
The Permanent Link to this page is: http://www.textually.org/textually/archives/2006/01/011277.htm