[rimprona] start RIMpro 2017

Tue Mar 21 13:17:49 EDT 2017

Srdjan, 

If I correctly interpret what you are saying, then consultants can’t be part of the subscriber group. Is that correct? The only connection is between HVRL and growers.

Thanks, 

Mike Biltonen

Director of Operations

Eastern Division

[845] 674 5124

From: RIMproNA [mailto:rimprona-bounces at virtualorchard.com] On Behalf Of Srdjan Acimovic
Sent: Tuesday, March 21, 2017 1:12 PM
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Cc: Peter J. Jentsch <pjj5 at cornell.edu>
Subject: Re: [rimprona] start RIMpro 2017

Hi Jim,

As Dave said we have some clarification to do. The main aims of HVRL's partnership with growers on learning RIMpro use for 2017 are:

1. Offer all interested eastern NY apple growers to learn how to use RIMpro in partnership with HVRL. We all view 2017 as an experimental year where we all learn (all East NY growers were invited to consider joining this partnership with HVRL and it was their free will to decide whether to join this partnership or not). 

2. Establish connection directly between HVRL and growers to form ENY Apple Farm user group in RIMpro for learning purposes (due to subscription-based nature of RIMpro and differences between user group vs. consultancy mode in its use). 

3. Use this partnership to deliver RIMpro output interpretations from HVRL to subscribed growers for 10-12 representative stations we choose. We would deliver this info via 3 region-specific e-mail lists to provide learning opportunity and to acclimate growers for independent RIMpro use in the future. We view RIMpro as one more tool in their decision making toolbox. We wish RIMpro subscribed growers through our partnership to receive HVRL interpretations directly from us. Growers can then decide who they wish share it with: consultants, scouts, any third party that helps them in their work. We will only deliver our RIMpro interpretations directly to grower e-mails since NEWA stations are owned by growers. It is their responsibility afterwards to decide who they share their RIMpro data with (within the account type boundaries set by RIMpro: http://www.rimpro.eu/faces/register_1.xhtml).

If your growers connect their NEWA stations to RIMpro using their names and e-mails, they can join HVRL's ENY Apple Farm user group after that. I do not see any issue in you helping them do this:
1. Contact HVRL's administrator Erica Kane at 845 691 7151 so she can get names, e-mails and phone numbers of your growers,
2. She will then contact these growers and arrange the payment of the the patch fee between RIMpro and NEWA,
3. She will then fill out the NEWA form for them and send it to Dan Olmstead,
4. Due to soon coming spring these growers should pay subscription to RIMpro online immediately,
5. Once they receive datafile links from Dan Olmstead I will send them the tutorials on how to connect the station, join ENY Apple Farm user group, put in BIOFIX's etc. 

We wish to follow certain procedure that is same for all growers who joined our user group and a hierarchy in delivering our partnership information. Finally, we wish to be fair to all other consultants by avoiding any potentially viewed favoritism of HVRL to specific consultants with whom growers have arrangements with.

Let us know if you have any questions.

Thank you.

All the best,

Srdjan Acimovic, Ph.D.
Extension Associate

Hudson Valley Research Laboratory - Plant Pathology
Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology Section
School of Integrative Plant Science
Cornell University
3357 US Highway 9W
P.O. Box 727
Highland, NY 12528

Ph: 845 691 7231
Cell: 517 449 0905
E-mail: acimovic at cornell.edu <mailto:acimovic at cornell.edu> 
            sa979 at cornell.edu <mailto:sa979 at cornell.edu> 
http://www.hudsonvalleyresearchlab.org/
https://blogs.cornell.edu/acimoviclab/

https://www.facebook.com/fruitcroppathologyhvrl/

http://www.researchgate.net/profile/Sran_Acimovic

https://cornell.academia.edu/SrđanAćimović <https://cornell.academia.edu/Sr%C4%91anA%C4%87imovi%C4%87> 

On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 10:15 AM, David A. Rosenberger <dar22 at cornell.edu <mailto:dar22 at cornell.edu> > wrote:

Hi, Jim — 

I’m not certain which stations you wish to use, but I wanted you to know that we have three stations in the Champlain that will be part of our eastern NY users group (Forrence, Northern, Chazy).  If you opt to join our user group, then you will be able to access those stations without having to pay anything more than 150 Euros to RIMpro to become a “friend of the user group.”  If you want to add NEWA stations elsewhere, you will need to subscribe with both NEWA and RIMpro for those additional stations, but you will still be able to access the Champlain Valley stations at no additional charge if you join our eastern NY use group. As I assume you know, you will need to pay NEWA $50/station to get a file name that will provide RIMpro compatible data.

For reasons that I don’t understand, Srdjan Acimovic and Peter Jentsch, who have organized the eastern NY program, seem a bit reluctant to include consultants in the network directly.  They (or perhaps Julie Carroll in NEWA) seem to want consultants to subscribe to RIMpro via the name of the grower on whose farm the NEWA station is located.  I don’t think the folks at RIMpro care either way, but I’m just alerting you to that situation.  Therefore, if you are interested in joining the user group, I suggest that you contact Srdjan with a request for info on how you can help two of your western NY growers join our user group or on how you can join as a friend of the user group if the stations of interest are only those in the Champlain Valley.

Srdjan’s e-mail is <sa979 at cornell.edu <mailto:sa979 at cornell.edu> >

On Mar 3, 2017, at 10:30 AM, jfwe <jfwe at aol.com <mailto:jfwe at aol.com> > wrote:

Marga:

I can not find my records of my account name and password for 2016.  I would like to subscribe to RIMPro again this year.  I am a consultant and would like to use two weather stations.  Would appreciate your assistance.

Best regards,

Jim Eve

Eve Farm Service, LLC

8791 Eelpot Road

Naples, NY  14512

Cell:  585.721.2682 <tel:%28585%29%20721-2682> 

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