MARQUETTE — A new mobile app from Michigan State University is giving farmers easier access to real-time weather, field, and crop modeling data right from their phones, helping them make faster and more precise decisions while working in the field.

The free Enviroweather Mobile app builds on a long-running desktop system and connects growers to data from 119 automated stations across Michigan that track conditions like temperature, rainfall, wind, humidity and soil moisture. In the Upper Peninsula, the tool is already being used by growers monitoring potato seed fields in McMillan and Newberry, offering another example of how digital tools are becoming part of modern agriculture.

For Michigan’s farm economy, the app reflects a broader move toward precision agriculture that can improve efficiency, timing and long-term competitiveness.