Assess Your Freeze Damage with a MyEV data Collector

Freeze damage across eastern U.S. vineyards was highly variable this week depending on the stage of bud development, air temperatures, and vineyard location. Assessing bud damage over the next two weeks will help growers determine the size and variation in crop potential, adjust management practices, and record damage for crop insurance. In this video, Terry Bates shows you how to set up and use a MyEV data collector and a smartphone to collect and map freeze damage observations in your vineyard.

Steps to setting up a data collector in MyEV in the video. (Links to additional tutorials are provided below.)

1. Go to MyEfficientVineyard

2. Click on the red MyEV tool button in the upper right of the screen and set up or enter your MyEV account.

3. Create your farm blocks.

4. Click on the Data Collector tool that looks like a clipboard in the bottom right corner of the screen.

5. Create a new data collector. Give it a name and description. Add fields, such as % freeze damage, for what you want to collect in the vineyard. Save the data collector.

6. Head to the vineyard, open MyEV on your smartphone, and navigate to your farm.

7. Open the data collector you created, make your observation, and hit “submit” to record your data.

8. When you are done collecting observations in the field, click on the “datasets” button in the upper left of the screen. There you will see the automatically generated data file from your data collector.

9. Click on the desired dataset to see your data projected on the vineyard map. Use the MyEV tools to map and work with your spatial data.