 Higher
profitability, better control, more peace of mind through Decision Support
      
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You Probably Need
A Property Spray Plan...
Are You Prepared?
Most Regional Councils now require you to produce a Property Spray Plan.
HortPlus in collaboration with HortResearch and Crop & Food have
produced an Online tool to help you prepare your Property Spray Plan
with minimal fuss. It is straight forward, it saves time, there
are links to the various relevant Regional Council requirements... AND
IT IS FREE!
>> Go to Spray
Plan Manager website
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FREE FREE FREE - No kidding!
Check out "Free Stuff" for Property Spray Plan Manager, Spray
Log, winter chill information and lots more.
>> Check out Free Stuff
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MetWatch On-Line Is Here
Unleash the power of the internet to access critical information:
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Weather forecasts (with a difference) |
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Disease risk assessments: Recent events, and forecast
disease events |
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Weather station information |
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Growing degree day, winter chill information, and more |
>> Get your
FREE TRIAL and all
the gen on MetWatch
>> View a video about
MetWatch On-Line
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Whet Your Appetite
For Weather Data
Use the facility to the right to access data from weather
stations around the country. Free to you. Now think about
the power that Decision Support Tools such as MetWatch bring to that
data...
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Incredible Value Temperature
Loggers
for indoor
and outdoor use.
Monitor temperatures of product in transport, or temperatures in your
blocks plus hundreds of other uses.
>> Click for more information
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Click for a case study
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Best value scales!
We are in love with the A&D 300EKi model.
2-decimal accuracy for dry matter determinations, and perfect for doing
whole fruit weights up to 300g. They are a
steal at under $1000!
>> Click for further
information about scales
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HortPlus MetWatch just got better
the award
winning tool that ensures managers get the best in weather, disease risk,
and crop management information. HortPlus
MetWatch delivers weather and disease information and interpretations to
assist you in making the right decisions for your disease and crop
management programs... and helps you to meet EUREPGAP and Integrated
Production requirements. Choose from the HortPlus MetWatch
product most convenient for you:
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MetWatch On-Line:
Unleash the power of the World Wide Web as a comprehensive source of
weather information and for tools helping you to interpret this
information for improved disease and crop management.
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MetWatch Daily Reports: Daily email
or fax containing critical weather, disease risk, and crop management
information. New this year, YOU CHOOSE THE TIME OF DAY OR NIGHT TO
RECEIVE YOUR REPORTS.
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MetWatch Software: Put the power of
your PC to work accessing and analysing weather information for disease
risk and crop management. Information when you want it as you want
it. |
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Click here to find out more about HortPlus
MetWatch, including how to get YOUR FREE TRIAL
Choose from 30 sub-regional forecasts, and over 45 weather stations.
No one else can come close. >>
Click here to send us an email
now to arrange your free trial... no
obligation... could it be any easier ?! |
On-Line Video Demos
A great
way to find out what is in a HortPlus package, and how to use it.
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Looking for Growing Degree Day
information?
Check out the Free Stuff section to get the latest
comprehensive Growing Degree Day summaries from around the country.
>> Click for GDD information
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Check out the latest additions to
our stress relief page!
Need a break from reality?
>> Click here for a bit of fun
(I love the "answer phone with a twist" and "3 parrots"!) |
Free software
Now available for
managing and graphing crop monitoring information such as fruit size, fruit
firmness, brix...
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Check it out here
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HortPlus Supports Science Communications
  HortPlus
is proud to support horticultural science in New Zealand and
internationally. Visit the web sites we maintain and host on behalf
of:
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International Soc for
Hort. Sciences (Modelling Working Group)
>> International
Kiwifruit Research Conference
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Back issues of HortPlus' Weather Sense column
written for NZ's premier
magazine The Orchardist. Check 'em out... |
Quick
Links Testimonials
Forecast
and disease info by fax or email
Products and price list
Looking for a guest
speaker?
Free weather
files for MetWatch
Free Stuff!
Need Adobe Acrobat?
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FREE Codling Moth
Decision Support Tool.
Help with optimising critical sprays for codling moth control.
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Click here to learn more and to use
the Codling Moth Decision Support Tool |
Hawkes Bay
FruitGrowers Assoc has awarded HortPlus MetWatch
the Kevin Fourneau
Award for excellence. Find out here
about MetWatch - software for weather, disease, and crop managment information.
Free test drive available |
| Check out notes from
talk by Dr Matthew Laurenson on new
technologies. Dr Laurenson was brought to NZ by HortPlus for a technology exchange
with assistance from Technology New Zealand and the Japanese Ministry of Agriculture. |
Based in New Zealand, HortPlus supplies the knowledge-based tools that underpin modern
horticultural industries worldwide. We believe in providing excellent value for
money, innovation, and product leadership.
Go straight to Support area for free updates, free historical
weather data files, answers to Frequently Asked Questions, and more.
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