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\n {node.frontmatter.date}\n \n\n Agritech New Zealand helps connect, promote and advocate for\n shared interests in the primary sector and the use of smart and\n innovative technology for sustainable agriculture.\n
\n \n \nUnderstand the impact of climate change on your grape and apple crops with the new Changing Climate: Disease Risks & Costs tool.
\nCreated for the Our Land and Water National Science Challenge in collaboration with Plant & Food Research, NIWA, The Agribusiness and Economics Research Unit and Applied Research & Technologies.
\n Access Changing Climate: Disease Risk & Costs tool\n\n The HortPlus MetWatch Platform{\" \"}\n provides practical and easy-to-use tools for digital decision\n support. The MetWatch Platform provides a framework for data-driven IPM decision-making.\n
\n\n\n MetWatch is highly extendable and can be customised to your\n organisation's needs to integrate with existing infrastructure,\n on-property hardware, and business intelligence systems for a\n central point of truth.\n
\n\n\n HortPlus has strong working relationships with leading scientists\n and researchers in a range of institutions in New Zealand and\n internationally, including Plant & Food Research as well as\n experts in agrichemicals, entomology, crop monitoring, and\n irrigation.\n
\n\n\n We have a proven record delivering practical pathways for\n activating research and extension, as well as being a key partner\n with industry in the journey towards integrated production\n initiatives and sustainability.\n
\n\n\n We strive to understand the underlying challenges that are being\n faced by growers and organisations and have been trusted to\n deliver technology solutions for over fifteen years.\n
\n \n\n HortPlus collaborates closely with research institutions such as\n Plant & Food Research.\n
\n \n\n Our platform is based on powerful science and data models to\n enable insight and inform management decisions for individual\n growers and agronomists, while also providing high-level overviews\n of regions and historical trends for managers and industry\n organisations.\n
\n\n We use a modular system architecture and design process to\n customise the MetWatch Platform to specific business and industry\n challenges. We are able to quickly build dashboards for new concepts and\n iterate projects to be responsive to changing needs and\n requirements, such as Integrated Production Programmes and GLOBAL\n G.A.P.\n
\n\n Our systems are cloud-based and highly secure and developed for\n ease of use with the latest in responsive web technology.\n
\n\nSustainability is a core value for HortPlus.
\n\n Everyone is at a different stage on their sustainability journey. By working\n together we can enable sustainable operation and resource use by encouraging the adoption of integrated management\n practices like Integrated Pest Management (IPM) and\n agroecological crop protection.\n
\n\n Our decision support tools play a key role in demonstrating\n trust and responsibility to consumers, helping growers and\n industries achieve their sustainability objectives.\n
\n \n\n We have developed a network of scientific and research-grade\n weather stations located in key growing regions throughout\n New Zealand for current & historical weather, as well as\n using the power of the IBM Weather Company, MetService, and\n other vendors to enable highly accurate localised forecasts\n in New Zealand and globally.\n
\n\n\n Connect your own weather station hardware and networks of stations\n to enhance insight in specific locations.\n
\n\n The MetWatch Platform is compatible with a range of weather station\n providers and sensor equipment, including Harvest Weather Stations.\n
\n \n\n We can integrate with your existing tools, user management and\n business intelligence systems and processes to connect data\n including spray diaries, irrigation monitoring, and property information.\n
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