The inexpensive MicroRX Station offers priceless insights into crucial environmental situations by way of 4G mobile know-how and cloud-based software program

Press Launch — As climate patterns are altering, it’s extra necessary than ever for researchers and growers to have a dependable system for recording and responding to local weather situations.

Onset, a world chief in knowledge loggers and climate stations, introduced at this time the launch of the brand new low-cost, web-enabled HOBO MicroRX Station. With 4G mobile know-how for extensive protection and compatibility with the newest cellular networks, and station-side alarms, together with a brand new amassed rainfall alarm, the MicroRX makes it simpler than ever to get higher insights by remotely accessing knowledge and receiving real-time alerts of crucial situations.

The HOBO MicroRX Station, mixed with Onset’s research-grade plug-and-play environmental sensors, delivers knowledge to the highly effective cloud-based HOBOlink® software program, that includes easy-to-create customized dashboards and the flexibility to export knowledge or set automated supply. Because of this—whether or not monitoring crops or conducting analysis in agriculture, forestry or ecology—growers and researchers can simply consolidate and share their knowledge, in addition to get well timed info every time and wherever they want it.

Designed to face up to the harshest situations, the powerful, compact station additionally lets customers select between built-in solar energy or battery energy, making the MicroRX simple to mount, and deploy in both full solar or coated, secured areas.

“Researchers and growers have benefited from the confirmed efficiency of our HOBO environmental monitoring options to ship the best ranges of accuracy, reliability, and efficiency,” mentioned Onset President, Jim Towey. “Now, with our HOBO MicroRX Station, customers achieve inexpensive flexibility and ease-of-use of their environmental monitoring for well timed insights wherever and every time they want them.”

Key purposes of the brand new HOBO MicroRX Station, embrace:

Environmental analysis – rugged and dependable microclimate monitoring in harsh subject situations, consists of entry to customers’ knowledge from anyplaceAgricultural analysis – subject situation monitoring and knowledge assortment assist save water, improve crop high quality, and improve yieldsIndustrial agriculture – crucial subject situation monitoring helps optimum irrigation, pest management, and harvest timing choicesWater use monitoring – non-obligatory water stage sensors and built-in movement calculations allow automated water use monitoring and alert notifications

Strong, Configurable HOBO MicroRX Station

The HOBO MicroRX Station is a low-cost, mobile, web-enabled subject monitoring answer. It encompasses a compact dimension and rugged design to assist long-term, dependable environmental monitoring, in addition to configurable station-side alarms to supply quick notification of crucial situations.

Onset makes it simple for purchasers to configure the stations to satisfy their particular wants. The core answer options the HOBO MicroRX Station, which gives user-selectable knowledge plans and the flexibility so as to add as much as 5 plug-and-play sensible sensors for monitoring a variety of environmental situations. These research-grade environmental sensors measure quite a lot of parameters embrace rainfall, temperature, relative humidity, calculated evaporation, leaf wetness, soil temperature, gentle, photosynthetically lively radiation (PAR), photo voltaic radiation, and wind velocity and course. Moreover, the MicroRX Station might be ordered with an Onset water stage sensor that has the built-in means to calculate movement for most typical weirs and flumes.

Energy choices embrace user-replaceable AA lithium batteries or a built-in 1.7 W photo voltaic panel with rechargeable battery pack (for extra energy, an exterior 5 W photo voltaic panel can exchange the built-in photo voltaic panel).

HOBOlink Cloud Software program

HOBOlink, Onset’s web-enabled software program platform, makes it simple to view knowledge remotely and to handle the HOBO MicroRX Station and sensors. It encompasses a customizable dashboard for immediate visualization of present and historic knowledge and allows customers to set e mail or textual content alarm notifications when situations attain user-set thresholds. Delivered as a cloud service, HOBOlink offers customers prompt entry to site-specific local weather knowledge on any system, anyplace, anytime.

Pricing and Availability

The HOBO MicroRX Station is out there at this time, beginning at $560. The annual mobile knowledge service ranges in value, relying on the person’s necessities. For extra details about the brand new HOBO MicroRX Station, go to /microrx.

About Onset

Onset is a number one provider of knowledge loggers and monitoring options used to measure, document, and handle knowledge for enhancing the setting and preserving the standard of temperature-sensitive merchandise. Our award-winning HOBO® knowledge logger and climate station merchandise are used all over the world in a broad vary of monitoring purposes, from verifying the efficiency of inexperienced buildings and renewable power methods to agricultural and coastal analysis. Primarily based on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, Onset has been designing and manufacturing its merchandise on web site because the firm’s founding in 1981.
Go to Onset on the internet at http://www.onsetcomp.com.

Foliar software of microbial merchandise

by Visitor blogger: David Stark
of Holganix, LLC

Hearken to his podcast HERE

The vital significance of microbes (micro organism, fungi and protozoa) for soil well being lastly is changing into extra well known.  In response, a plethora of microbial merchandise are hitting the cabinets. Since many of the microbes bought are soil microbes, a typical and logical query is that if they are going to nonetheless be efficient when utilized as a foliar spray.  In that case, when is the perfect time in the course of the rising season to use them? Additionally, given the variety of strategies for foliar software, is anyone methodology finest or to be prevented?

Why to use

After all some microbials, for instance Bt merchandise for insect management or others designed to suppress above floor fungal and bacterial pathogens, are particularly meant to be utilized as a foliar spray.  However what in regards to the majority of microbial merchandise the place the profit is within the soil? Usually, there isn’t any hurt in making use of these as a foliar software. That is excellent news since many growers don’t have the tools to use soil microbes by way of injection or subsurface irrigation.  There are a couple of essential issues nonetheless when utilizing microbials as a part of a foliar spray. And as at all times please observe the producer’s label directions.

The right way to apply

When spraying soil microbes onto crops crucial observe is to make use of sufficient water to moist the microbes into the soil in order that they wash all the way down to the seed or plant roots.  A superb rule of thumb is at the least 30 gallons of complete liquid utilized per acre, with extra even higher. That is essential as a result of UV gentle from the solar will kill the microbes, so we don’t need them utilized with little water in order that they sit on the floor with no safety.  As well as all microbes want meals and water, and soil microbes discover these under the floor and ideally alongside plant roots, so use sufficient water to place them in shut proximity to the roots. Many soil microbes can develop and multiply alongside the roots, however they’re incapable of motion by themselves in order that they should be watered in near rising roots.  That is significantly essential for a lot of bacterial merchandise and fungi together with Trichoderma and mycorrhizae.  

For many microbial merchandise mixing the microbes with fertilizer is okay, however many merchandise suggest in opposition to mixing with crop safety chemical compounds.  Additionally keep in mind many microbial merchandise suggest de-chlorinated water since chlorine could be very efficient at killing microbes. Whereas any methodology of spraying is okay, some producers warning in opposition to utilizing pumps with extreme stress or small screens for the reason that shear drive might injury some microbes.

When to use

Usually, the perfect time in the course of the season to use microbes is at or near planting.  Helpful microbes may also help with root institution, nutrient biking and should defend roots from disease-causing microbes.  The precise advantages one ought to count on relies upon solely on which microbes are utilized. Many microbial merchandise require extra purposes by way of the rising season, some as typically as each week.

Foliar purposes typically are completely acceptable, however are there any precise advantages to foliar software?  Once more, this relies solely on the product getting used. Some merchandise include microbes that colonize on and within the plant and these microbes can suppress foliar and fruit illnesses and support in stress responses.  Microbes naturally combat one another for house and sources, so having the helpful microbes there first helps exclude incoming pathogens. Some merchandise include brokers like fulvic acid, yucca or seaweed extract, and a few micro organism produce biofilms.  All of those brokers might assist with foliar uptake of vitamins so some microbials can help with a foliar feeding of fertilizer.

Which to use

Microbes can do wonderful issues as a part of a soil well being, plant well being program.  Selecting which microbes to make use of may be daunting. Keep in mind wholesome soil has billions of people and 1000’s of species of micro organism, fungi and protozoa in each teaspoon. This variety issues; every microbe sort and species performs a job in breaking down plant and animal particles, biking vitamins, defending plant roots, constructing soil construction and natural matter.  Selecting a product that retains the entire helpful microbiome in stability is essential since your crops gained’t carry out their finest in soil that isn’t balanced. 

My suggestion

Holganix Bio 800+ merchandise are a liquid suspension of over 800 species of helpful soil micro organism, fungi and protozoa; essentially the most biologically numerous microbial product accessible.  Bio 800+ is also extraordinarily versatile in how it’s utilized. In over 15 years of use on dozens {of professional} and faculty athletic fields, over 700 golf programs, properties, companies, orchards and farms throughout North America, about each methodology has been used efficiently someplace.  There isn’t any want to fret about utilizing dechlorinated water, and software generally is made by way of in-furrow injection, by way of drip tape, fertigation, increase sprayers, backpack sprayers, hose-end sprayers, tractor-mounted sprayers and even watering cans. Foliar software is inspired as a result of along with a whole lot of species of soil microbes, Bio 800+ additionally comprises microbes that can defend leaves and fruit. Components like fulvic acid, yucca and seaweed extracts are also within the product and support foliar feeding.  Bio 800+ is finest used at planting and for row crops that is the one software wanted. For produce crops and berries 1-Three purposes after planting (is determined by the crop) leads to improbable yields and taste. Bio 800+ is designed to take the guesswork out of selecting which microbial to make use of; it’s a full biome in a jug. Please give us a strive.

www.urbanfarm.org/foliarfeeding

About this writer:

Dr. Stark is President of Holganix, LLC the place he leads the corporate’s efforts to develop its enterprise into agriculture. Dr. Stark spent over 25 years with Monsanto Firm the place he held varied senior management roles in know-how, company affairs and enterprise operations.

In 2015 he went to work for Holganix, sells a line of 100% pure bionutritional merchandise for turf, decorative and agriculture use. The product begins with a proprietary course of for making and concentrating a various mixture of over 800 species of helpful micro organism, fungi and protozoa. The tip result’s essentially the most full mixture of Natural helpful microbes available on the market.

The right way to attain David:        

Web site: holganix.com

E-mail: dstark@holganix.com

Wheels Up

On Wednesday, German startup Volocopter unveiled the plane it hopes will service the world’s first on-demand air taxi service — and it’s wild-looking.

The modern black-and-white VoloCity has sufficient room for 2 passengers and their hand baggage, Volocopter wrote in a press launch. The electrical vertical take-off and touchdown automobile additionally contains a whopping 18 rotors with aerodynamically formed beams and a brand new “stabilizer” to — as you may guess — present extra stability throughout flight.

Volocopter claims the VoloCity can fly at a velocity of 110 kilometers per hour (68 miles per hour), with a spread of 35 kilometers (21.7 miles). That may not appear terribly far, however contemplating that Volocopter’s aim is for the plane to ferry individuals round cities, it ought to be sufficient to get riders the place they should go.

Protected Travels

Maybe much more thrilling than the VoloCity’s look and capabilities, nonetheless, is the truth that it meets native security requirements — in different phrases, this can be a craft that might legally service prospects.

“[The VoloCity] is rigorously designed to satisfy the calls for of City Air Mobility,” Volocopter CEO Florian Reuter mentioned within the press launch, “and incorporates all necessities of the SC-VTOL certification customary established by EASA in July 2019.”

Volocopter now plans to work on increase the infrastructure to launch a business air taxi service, together with take-off and touchdown ports — and for individuals who can’t wait to see the VoloCity fly, the startup will maintain a public flight demo in Singapore within the fourth quarter of 2019.

READ MORE: Volocopter reveals its first business plane, the VoloCity air taxi [TechCrunch]

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