WILLMAR, Minn. — Farmers in southern Minnesota will now have access to more coverage and precise data and weather updates to help them make decisions about irrigating crops or when to add fertilizer and apply pesticides.

Over the past year, the Minnesota Department of Agriculture installed 14 new weather stations on the Minnesota Ag Weather Network, including a dozen across southern Minnesota that previously fell outside the network’s reach, according to a news release from the Ag Department.

The locations of the new stations include Willmar (Kandiyohi County), Murdock (Swift County), Madison (Lac qui Parle County) and Fairfax (Renville County) in west central Minnesota.

The other new station locations are Cologne (Carver County), Eyota (Olmsted County), Geneva (Freeborn County)

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