Re: [apple-crop] New Technology in Apple Scab and Fire Blight Management

It is not yet clear to me (or perhaps to anyone??) if the MateoBlue forecast available for an additional fee in 2016 will be an improvement over the Norwegian forecast (yr.no) that was used during my evaluations of RIMpro over the past two years. Although RIMpro was using

Re: [apple-crop] New Technology in Apple Scab and Fire Blight Management

Yes, and interestingly, RIMpro has plans to offer an "enhanced" weather forecast option (meteoblue.com) in 2016 vs. the base forecast (yr.no) included with RIMpro. The enhanced version will cost 50 euros (which is in addition to the base $200 euro RIMpro subscription). Users will also have the

Re: [apple-crop] New Technology in Apple Scab and Fire Blight Management

Jon, Being int he Midwest, I will not be able to attend the Summit. Where can we get more information on the RIMpro Cloud Service other than the web site, or should we set up an account to learn more? Thanks! Dennis Norton IPM Specialist/Certified Nurseryman Royal Oak Farm Orchard 15908

Re: [apple-crop] New Technology in Apple Scab and Fire Blight Management

You can access a brief description of RIMpro in the blog commentary that I posted at http://blogs.cornell.edu/plantpathhvl/blog/ on Jan 21. The blog post provides a link to a PDF file that contains a 3-page description of RIMpro along with my impressions of the program after evaluating it for