Long Range Weather for Agriculture
What could be more important to the modern agriculture business than the weather?
When to seed? When to fertilize? When to use chemical pesticides? Which crop? When to harvest? What will be the prices next season? All can be affected by weather.
Optimize your production around weather
- Confidently make decisions now for the next growing season
- Have exclusive insight into next years commodity prices
- Treat your crops at the ideal time to maximize the impact
Additionally, you can look to dryday™ forecasts to help you minimize your weather problems. With this advantage, you can adjust processes during weather-sensitive periods to better fit forecasted drier periods. You will be able to make these decisions with significant odds on your side, for a change.
The dryday™ Advantage
Over the past ten years, agricultural operations planning with dryday™ have enjoyed significant odds on their side with accuracy up to 87%.
Planning on your own puts you at additional risk
During that same time period, dryday™ forecasts outperformed planning on your own by a factor of almost three to one. This means that if you were planning with dryday™ forecasts during that period, roughly three out of four dryday™ forecasts would have provided you better odds over planning on your own.
The opposite is also true, if you were planning on your own, you would have been at a disadvantage around 75% of the time.
What about using other weather forecasts?
- Media outlets continuously change their 3-10 day forecasts making them unusable for planning.
- Other long term weather predictions use Climatology (historical averages) to predict the weather. This strategy has proven to be unreliable.
How We Forecast Long Range Weather
dryday™ forecasts are created using a dynamic model of the atmosphere, based on meteorological forces that have been proven by extensive testing to be acting upon our weather.
The way our forecasts are made is similar to how tidal charts are created. The tides are caused by forces (gravitational and centrifugal) between the sun, earth and moon. They are very consistent and can be accurately predicted in the long term. And just like a tidal chart, our weather forecasting model can go out as far as 18 months with no erosion of accuracy.