Producers can now be alerted to oncoming severe weather on their farms through a Weather Farm App for Blackberrys.

Guy Ash, the CWB's weather network manager, says farmers can set five different alerts to be delivered from 10 different weather stations on the WeatherFarm network.

Because farmers can build alerts for a wide assortment of conditions, Ash says there are many practical uses for this tool.

 

Step-by-step instructions for setting up the new mobile application can be found www.cwb.ca/wfmobile.