It’s kind of eerie that this week’s University of Florida/FAWN (Florida Automated Weather Network) Winter Weather School has been scheduled since long before this week’s cold weather came along. Even so, it should still be good timing for growers in the area to gather to learn more about what is happening right now and what they can do in the fields and groves to take advantage of the latest technologies. Here below is the detailed release from FAWN about this week’s Winter Weather School for growers to be held in Bartow, Florida this Tuesday.
Gainesville, FL – December 23, 2009 – On January 12, 2010, the University of Florida
Florida Automated Weather Network (FAWN) will host a winter weather seminar at the
Polk County Extension Office from 9 am – 12 pm, with lunch provided. This seminar is
free and is being funded by by the Alafia River, Coastal Rivers, Hillsborough River,
Manasota, Northwest Hillsborough, Peace River, Pinellas-Anclote River, and
Withlacoochee River Basin Boards, and the Southwest Florida Water Management
District.
Topics covered will include freeze protection for various crops, use of the FAWN Cold
Protection Toolkit, and use of instruments and technology to better evaluate cold
protection needs.
FAWN is a program of the University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural
Science (UF/IFAS), and provides weather data and weather-related services to a wide
variety of users in Florida.
The Polk County Extension Office is located at 1702 Highway 17-98 South, Bartow, FL
33820.
To register contact Gail Crawford at (863) 519-8677, ext. 111, or at dorothyc@ufl.edu.
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