ALBANY — Fruit and vegetable farmers in 17 Eastern NY counties can now receive real time alerts on high risk disease and pest outbreaks texted directly to their cell phone. The Eastern NY Commercial Horticulture program, which is supported by local Cornell Cooperative Extension associations, will now offer text alerts to those that sign up.
The text alerts will be reserved for important crop alerts that could impact management decisions immediately. For instance, if there were an outbreak of Late Blight in the area, this would be transmitted to vegetable growers.
Farmers can choose the crop for which they wish to receive updates. Additionally they can request that Ag Business Alerts be sent to them. These alerts might include due dates for crop insurance deadlines, market opportunities etc.
Text alerts are easy to access. Just click on the link below and fill out a very short registration form. It takes just seconds to do – access to important information has never been so easy!!
CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR OUR CCE ENYCHP TEXT ALERTS: https://mailchi.mp/7a7cc033546c/k24yc2ayt1
If you have questions, please contact Abby Henderson at 518-746-2553 or email her at aef225@cornell.edu.
–Cornell Cooperative Extension