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 Hebr
Does anyone have a handle on how wind chill relates to fruit bud critical
temps. We are expecting -11F tonight with a wind chill effect of around
-30 F.
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Art Kelly
Kelly Orchards
Acton, ME
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So far as I know, wind chill is pretty much irrelevant when it comes to plants
and other life forms that are not warm-blooded creatures. Wind-chilll provides
an estimate of how we perceive the cold, but the measured temperature on the
thermometer is still the temperature experienced by trees.
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 t