FAWN Offers Freeze Alert Tool and More for Citrus Growers

Dan December 14, 2011 Citrus, Florida

New this year from the Florida Automated Weather Network (FAWN) is a freeze alert tool that will alert subscribing growers to conditions at any one of FAWN’s 36 weather stations. FAWN Director Rick Lusher tells about that tool, FAWN’s citrus cold protection tool kit, citrus irrigation scheduler and citrus pesticide application tool.

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