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We Build Weather & Disease Platforms for Agriculture

Our goal is to provide growers, agronomists, and researchers with the best tools to enable more sustainable agriculture.
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HortPlus has pioneered the development of digital decision support tools for agriculture.

Our digital platform is powered by a robust weather data network and innovative technology, providing a bridge between science and industry to help on the sustainability and IPM journey.

A Decision Support Platform

The HortPlus MetWatch Platform provides practical and easy-to-use tools for digital decision support. The MetWatch Platform provides a framework for data-driven IPM decision-making.

  • Pest & Disease
  • Spray planning
  • Irrigation & soil use
  • Crop planning & management

MetWatch is highly extendable and can be customised to your organisation's needs to integrate with existing infrastructure, on-property hardware, and business intelligence systems for a central point of truth.

Digital Grower Tools for Agriculture

A Bridge Between Science and Industry

HortPlus has strong working relationships with leading scientists and researchers in a range of institutions in New Zealand and internationally, including Plant & Food Research as well as experts in agrichemicals, entomology, crop monitoring, and irrigation.

We have a proven record delivering practical pathways for activating research and extension, as well as being a key partner with industry in the journey towards integrated production initiatives and sustainability.

We strive to understand the underlying challenges that are being faced by growers and organisations and have been trusted to deliver technology solutions for over fifteen years.

Plant and Food Research Office

HortPlus collaborates closely with research institutions such as Plant & Food Research.

AgriTech New Zealand Member
HortPlus are a proud member of Agritech New Zealand

Agritech New Zealand helps connect, promote and advocate for shared interests in the primary sector and the use of smart and innovative technology for sustainable agriculture.

Achieve Sustainability Goals

Sustainability is a core value for HortPlus.

Everyone is at a different stage on their sustainability journey. By working together we can enable sustainable operation and resource use by encouraging the adoption of integrated management practices like Integrated Pest Management (IPM) and agroecological crop protection.

Our decision support tools play a key role in demonstrating trust and responsibility to consumers, helping growers and industries achieve their sustainability objectives.

Innovative Technology

Our platform is based on powerful science and data models to enable insight and inform management decisions for individual growers and agronomists, while also providing high-level overviews of regions and historical trends for managers and industry organisations.

We use a modular system architecture and design process to customise the MetWatch Platform to specific business and industry challenges. We are able to quickly build dashboards for new concepts and iterate projects to be responsive to changing needs and requirements, such as Integrated Production Programmes and GLOBAL G.A.P.

Our systems are cloud-based and highly secure and developed for ease of use with the latest in responsive web technology.

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New Zealand's Leading Network of Agricultural Weather Stations

We have developed a network of scientific and research-grade weather stations located in key growing regions throughout New Zealand for current & historical weather, as well as using the power of the IBM Weather Company, MetService, and other vendors to enable highly accurate localised forecasts in New Zealand and globally.

Weather Data & Forecasts
  • High precision hourly weather forecasts up to 15 days in key growing areas and at a property-level to inform grower actions
  • Key weather variables including temperature, rain, wind and relative humidity
  • Agricultural variables including soil moisture, evapotranspiration, dew point, leaf wetness
  • Historical research-quality weather data going back up to twenty years
  • API access to weather data feed is available for advanced integration and functions
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Our Platform Integrates
With Your Technology

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Connect Your Weather Station

Connect your own weather station hardware and networks of stations to enhance insight in specific locations.

The MetWatch Platform is compatible with a range of weather station providers and sensor equipment, including Harvest Weather Stations.

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Bring Your Data Sources Together

We can integrate with your existing tools, user management and business intelligence systems and processes to connect data including spray diaries, irrigation monitoring, and property information.