{"id":85424,"date":"2024-04-09T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-09T02:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.farmersweekly.co.nz\/?p=85424"},"modified":"2024-04-09T12:41:51","modified_gmt":"2024-04-09T00:41:51","slug":"climate-change-disease-outlook-foretold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.farmersweekly.co.nz\/technology\/climate-change-disease-outlook-foretold\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate change disease outlook foretold"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading Time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minute<\/span><\/span>\n

A free interactive tool has been launched to provide apple and grape growers and prospective investors with a glimpse into how climate change may affect the risk and costs of common plant diseases in different parts of New Zealand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Created as part of the Our Land and Water National Science Challenge funded by the Ministry for Business, Innovation and Employment, the Changing Climate: Disease Risk & Costs tool<\/a> allows people to enter their orchard or vineyard\u2019s address to view the risk of apple fire blight, grape powdery mildew and grape botrytis on their crops under different climate change scenarios.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It also translates that risk into financial terms, helping people understand how climate change may affect the cost of managing plant diseases on their land in the decades ahead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIn simple terms it\u2019s a portal into the future,\u201d said Mike Barley, the director of New Zealand agri-tech company HortPlus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt helps with climate adaptation planning and provides easy-to-digest information for people in the apple and winegrowing industry who want to understand how plant disease risks are likely to change, and importantly, what the cost implications of those changes might be.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

HortPlus developed the tool in collaboration with Plant & Food Research (disease models, Te Ao M\u0101ori), NIWA (climate models), the Agribusiness and Economics Research Unit (economic modelling) and Applied Research & Technologies (disease model reviews).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New tool can help predict local risks from common plant problems as the planet warms.\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":85425,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_FSMCFIC_featured_image_caption":"People can enter their orchard or vineyard\u2019s address to view the risk of apple fire blight, grape powdery mildew and grape botrytis on their crops under different climate change scenarios.","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_nocaption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_hide":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[60],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t