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Sensors, software send Ag alerts to farmers' phones

Associated Press

Posted on March 11, 2010 at 10:58 AM

Updated Thursday, Mar 11 at 10:58 AM

YAKIMA, Wash. (AP) — A marriage between Washington State University agriculture research and software development is putting critical weather information on farmer's mobile phones.

A Yakima software firm, called 4Quarters, is using the WSU weather monitoring network in a system to deliver weather and crop disease data to mobile devices equipped with a Web browser.

Farmers can get the information while out in their fields or orchards.

The Yakima Herald-Republic reports the system known as AgAlertz is currently being tested at no charge. So far, 95 farmers have signed up for the alerts.

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On the Net:

http://weather.wsu.edu/

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Information from: Yakima Herald-Republic, http://www.yakima-herald.com

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