HortPlus is New Zealand's leading provider of digital decision-support tools for horticultural and agricultural
growers. We directly work with growers and industry bodies to deliver tools that target and identify potential disease risks and weather events, improve growers' spray and irrigation schedules and increase crop returns.

Based in Hawke's Bay, one of the largest growing areas in New Zealand, HortPlus prides itself on providing reliable and scalable solutions to growers and setting the industry-standard with a design-thinking approach.

MetWatch Online.
Your Online Partner for Decision Support for Disease and Weather risks.

MetWatch is New Zealand's most reliable and comprehensive source of weather data for proactive horticultural and crop growers. MetWatch assists and supports decision-making for irrigation, spray planning and frost protection through real-time and historical weather information, MetService forecasts, weather analysis and pest / disease risk modelling.

With over 80 weather stations located in the main growing areas of New Zealand feeding data into a central database, the user-friendly and customisable MetWatch is best-in-class and the premier go-to application for growing managers serious about maximising crop outcomes and satisfying compliance to industry standards.

Being online 24-7 means MetWatch updates are automatic and new tools and models are accessible as soon as they're released. Nothing is stored on your computer, so if anything happens you won't lose your subscription or need to replace your data. You can login from any Internet-connected computer, and you'll only need one subscription for home and office. 

Benefits:

• Peace-of-mind with the best weather data available

• Conveniently delivered online 24-7

• Foresight for irrigation, spraying and frost protection

• Data and analysis specific to your growing area

Features:

• Data from 80+ Campbell Scientific weather stations

• Highly detailed hour-by-hour MetService forecasts

• 30+ sub-regional forecasts in key growing areas

• Temperature, rain, wind speed / direction, relative humidity

*To meet industry body requirements such as Integrated Production Programmes and GLOBALG.A.P.