Following on from the launch of the Rural Fire Danger website, check out this interview with Southern Rural Fire: Youtube clip from CUE TV South Today News.

A company we have partnered with have just released a new dust monitor. Harvest has worked with Aeroqual to provide telemetry and an online interface that allows for real-time online monitoring anywhere in the world. For more information please check out their website Aeroqual Dust Sentry.

Harvest are pleased to announce the release of the Acclima TDT soil moisture sensor. This sensor is especially good on dairy farms as it automatically compensates for conductivity which is hugely influenced by effluent and fertiliser. Check out our instructional installation video here.

Harvest were pleased to have the opportunity to host MP Steven Joyce in his official capacity as Minister for Science and Innovation.

Harvest has started development of a new wireless remote - the Extended Long Range Remote or XLR for short. This new remote has an expanded feature set over the existing Long Range Remote (LRR). Some of the new features include ability to do logic/control, extra inputs and the ability to act as a standalone wireless remote repeater. Expected release is in the first quarter of 2014.

Harvest are pleased to announce the release of a Rural Fire Danger website in conjunction with regional Rural Fire Authorities. This website is designed to give the public hourly updates regarding the Fire Danger in their areas. The website data is generated using regional Rural Fire Authority owned Harvest weather stations (RAWS) along with formulas provided by SCION research.
www.ruralfiredanger.co.nz

Renovations have been completed at our offices in Masterton. The offices were originally owned by ENZA and built in 1993 and although well maintained were in need of a freshen up! Check out some of picture on the Harvest Electronics Facebook page.

Harvest is attending the national Fieldays at Mystery Creek, Hamilton, NZ from June 12-15. Come check us out at site PB1 in the Pavilion.
Check out this site map.

We are pleased to announce that Philip Harvey has joined the Support Team. Philip has a interesting combination of degrees and certification - theology and computing. With Philip joining the team the Support Team now has three full time members.

Check out this great news article focusing on smart farming by one of our customers:
Dairying by Numbers Paying Off

Whilst enjoying the mud Peter and Andrew Munn took time to meet with new and existing customers at the South Island Agricultural Field Days. Check out the write up that was featured on the Field Days website - From Coca-Cola to the South Island Agricultural Field Days

Harvest are attending the South Island Field Days held at Lincoln on March 20-22. We would love the opportunity to meet you and discuss how we can enhance your business.

Here at Harvest we are always trying to continually enhance the monitoring system website interface and have added the following features over the last few months:
-Tabs: allowing data to be split into "groups" of data (eg. Weather, Flow Meters and Soil Moisture)
-Google Maps: the maps interface allows for data to be seen from a map point of view with current readings

A system in the Hawkes Bay and one in Central Otago recorded highs of 41 degrees C in January - a very hot dry spell.