Agriculture and Farming Atlas

How The World Is Fed
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Agrometeorology

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How weather becomes a farming decision: a frost-date forecast that sets a planting window, a growing-degree-day tally that predicts a harvest date, a rainfall record that sizes an irrigation system. The field sits across meteorology, hydrology and crop science, tracking the soil-plant-atmosphere system that decides whether a season's weather becomes a crop or a loss; predicting seasonal rains and floods mattered to the earliest agricultural settlements long before the discipline had a name.

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Agrometeorology is the study and use of weather and climate information to enhance or expand agricultural crops or to increase crop production. 1
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Irrigation, Practices

Rainfall and evapotranspiration data size an irrigation system's scheduling

Precision Agriculture, Practices

Weather and sensor data together drive precision agriculture's field-level decisions

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1. Agrometeorology (Wikipedia)
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Agrometeorology is the study of weather and use of weather and climate information to enhance or expand agricultural crops or to increase crop production.
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