Farmers love to talk about the weather, and now they have a chance to report on the weather and how it impacts their farms.
A new computer based program asks volunteers to submit reports of how weather has impacted their area and its severity each month.
Agriculture Canada’s Agroclimate Impact Reporter is a new online tool that officials hope will help better understand local and regional climate conditions and identify emerging risks to agriculture.
AIR is Canada’s first geospatial database of agroclimate impacts and is managed by Agriculture Canada’s National Agroclimate Information Service. It’s hoped the reports from farmers and other prairie residents will complement existing weather and climate data and help evaluate climate-related risks to agriculture.
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Extreme weather events and climatic variability can have significant effects on agriculture. In the past 10 years, drought, flooding and excess moisture have cost farmers millions.
Monitoring the impacts of weather on water supplies, soil degradation and agricultural production will help make preparations to withstand climate extremes in a more informed manner, said a federal government news release.
To learn more about becoming a Agroclimate reporter, visit www.agr.gc.ca/air.
