UWA PhD student Bonny Stutsel.
RESEARCHERS have encouraged Western Australian growers to install temperature monitors (such as Tiny Tags and iButtons) in their crops to increase their understanding of frost incidence across their paddocks and in frost-prone landscapes.
Nik Callow, School of Agriculture and Environment at The University of WA, said the devices generated data which could be used to monitor trends of temperature variability and compared with crop yield results.
“Data from temperature monitors can be used to develop a historical database to monitor frost incidence on growers’ properties and to assist with whole-year frost risk management planning,” he said.
Dr Callow said it was important to place temperature monitors at crop canopy height.
