MyEV training at the Cornell Lake Erie Research and Extension Laboratory in Portland, NY
Dr. Terry Bates and Jennifer Phillips Russo held a MyEV Workshop on February 13, 2024 as a direct result of our advisory committee suggestions. Our growers asked for more opportunities to come in and learn more about the MyEV Tool and how it may benefit them in their operations.
MyEV Tool is a precision agricultural tool that was developed for the grape industry through the 6.2 million dollar Specialty Crop Research Initiative grant the Efficient Vineyard Project. This led to another grant with Dr. Terry Bates through NIFA’s AFRI grant, Cost effective spatial data visualization and decision support for small and medium-sized vineyards. It is our goal to engage producers to use personalized digital agriculture solutions in their own operations. The problem is that most small producers do not have the tools (process) or information (content) or experience (high impact activities) to achieve transformational education in digital agriculture. By integrating research-based digital agriculture education, new spatial processing tools, and producer-led on-farm activities will lead to transformational education in spatial-data driven variable-rate farm management.
We held several one-on-one meetings with growers to get them started this quarter and had 18 attendees at our first two MyEV Workshops in January and February 2024.
Snapshot of the MyEV platform block drawing tool