clearly favors the on-site weather stations and 

 model output derived from them. 



Unfortunately, it is difficult to quantify the real 

 impact, both monetary and environmental, of 

 deployment of these weather stations, and was perhaps 

 beyond the scope of this project. Clearly, however, a 



basic tenet of EPM is monitoring, and there is no doubt Acknowledgements 

 grower use of the technologies explored here has given 

 cooperating growers information to make spray 

 decisions that they would otherwise not have, and 

 therefore, ought to have both favorable economic and 

 environmental impacts. 



Finally, although a start was made here, more 



education and effort needs to be made giving growers 

 EPM tools that are both accurate and friendly, hence 

 enhancing their adoption. Clearly there is room for 

 improvement in gathering and analyzing weather data 

 to make orchard spray decisions. 



We are grateful to the Massachusetts Department of 

 Agricultural Resources Agro-Environmental 

 Technology Grant Program for funding this project. 

 Also, thanks to the cooperating growers for learning 

 the technology to make this project possible. 



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