CO-OPERATIVE NEWS
Spray plans on hand anytime, anywhere For decades, merchants and growers have relied on printed wall charts for planning their spray programmes. While useful, the wall charts can quickly become dated and don’t provide the concise or detailed product information that can be critical to making good spraying decisions. To ensure shareholders have easy access to the most up to date information when formulating spray programmes, Farmlands has developed a series of crop health programmes that can be accessed through our GrowGuide app. The programmes are proving popular with growers of apples, kiwifruit and wine grapes. Using them, growers can produce a full season’s crop spray plan or a plan for one pest or disease. The app is also a convenient tool for quick queries, allowing the user to drill through to product information, product labels and safety data sheets.
growth stage and the pest or disease concerned.
industry schedules reflected in the crop health programmes.
In developing these programmes, Farmlands has worked to the three industry crop protection standards to ensure compliance for market access and chemical residue thresholds: the Zespri Crop Protection Standard, the NZ Apples & Pears PHI Database, and the New Zealand Winegrowers Vineyard Spray Schedule. The GrowGuide app has been updated for the 2021/22 growing season, with any changes from these
Growers that already have GrowGuide downloaded on their phones will be prompted to sync when opening the app, and this will pull through all updates.
GrowGuide All the information you need is now at your fingertips. •
Quickly and easily find the products you need
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Create and send an order enquiry to Farmlands
This means the GrowGuide horticulture crop health programmes give growers all the information they require at their fingertips.
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Access the latest resources and calculators to help you find products
The app works off a centralised cloud database, allowing it to be kept up to date with the latest information. The horticulture crop health programmes are driven off the user’s selection of crop
DOWNLOAD THE APP TODAY!
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In addition to the horticulture crop health programmes, GrowGuide has extensive information on the range of crop protection products, seed, fertiliser, and weed identification across the broader horticulture, pasture and cropping sectors.
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