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About WinField SA WinField United South Africa (WUSA) provides holistic agricultural solutions to the South African industry. WUSA’s comprehensive portfolio offers experienced crop adviser teams, technical support specialists, research and innovation facilities, agricultural consultancy services, and national distribution. A strong emphasis is placed on growers who are ultimately responsible for feeding the global and local population. WUSA was formed from the 2021 merger of two local companies, Villa Crop Protection and InteliChem Group, with WinField United, the crop protection business of the US Land O’Lakes Group. About Eureka Eureka is the world’s biggest public network for international cooperation in R&D and innovation. Present in over 45 countries, Eureka supports gaining access to new markets by providing tools and advice for expansion. About Technology Innovation Agency (TIA) TIA is a South African national public entity that serves as the key institutional intervention to bridge the innovation chasm between research and development from higher education institutions, science councils, public entities and the private sector, and commercialisation. About Pessl Austria-based, Pessl Instruments, offers tools for informed decision-making. A complete range of wireless, solar powered monitoring systems under the Metos ® brand, and

an online platform called FieldClimate , are applicable in all climate zones and can be used in various industries and for various purposes – from agriculture to research, hydrology, meteorology, flood warning and more. Pessl currently has weather stations installed in over 85 countries, with one million sensors assisting over 40 000 users. About Metos® SA Owned by WUSA, Metos ® SA is the exclusive distributor of Pessl Instruments weather monitoring solutions. Metos ® SA solutions include weather stations to provide access to live, real-time weather data, hyper-localised weather forecasting over 80 disease models on 40 crops, insect monitoring equipment and other in-field decision-making tools, such as daily ET0 for irrigation management and optimal spray windows and Delta-T for the application of crop protection products. About TerraClim TerraClim is a wine industry flagship climate change project since 2019, hosted at Stellenbosch University, funded by Winetech, founded and co-founded on an extensive amount of research by Dr Tara Southey and Prof Adriaan van Niekerk, respectively. TerraClim provides the South African agricultural sector with integrated data resources to give access to detailed climate and terrain information that will assist to understand and then navigate the increase in seasonal changes at the farm and field level. Reference https://www.wineland.co.za/collaboration-to-mitigate-the risk-of-climate-change/

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Climate layers help you understand crop responses

Climate and terrain drive biological systems

WHAT DOES A METOS WEATHER STATION MEASURE? • Temperature • Humidity • Rainfall • Leaf Wetness • Wind Speed and -Direction • Solar Radiation WHAT USEFUL PARAMETERS ARE CALCULATED? • Delta T – Useful for determining optimal spraying conditions • Daily Evapotranspiration – Useful for irrigation management • Growing Degree Days • Chill Units

TerraClim uses its technology to integrate various climate and terrain data sources to produce detailed maps of the changing climate conditions at regional local (farm and field) level.

Terrain layers aid in spatial decision making

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Product Features Threshold Climate Maps Crop Specific Results Risk Assessment Climate Profiling Multiple Season Coverage Trend Analysis Bioclimatic Indices

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Understand your area and relevant climatic trends

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Track changes over time, specific to every hour

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FUNDED BY

IRRIGATION MANAGEMENT metos.at/water-management

WEATHER FORECAST metos.at/weather-forecast

DISEASE MODELS metos.at/disease-models

PARTNERS WITH

CGA CENTRE FOR GEOGRAPHICAL ANALYSIS

www.terraclim.co.za

www.metos.at • admin@metos.co.za • Carina Olivier +27 83 805 9335

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