Information development resources for superior agro-season knowledge

Agro-season knowledge consists of unique, day-by-day soil, crop, and weather status information and understanding of what it means for your day-by-day management decisions. The key provision is having updated “whole season” formations of both dimensions from beginning to end.

You may be a grower updating precision irrigation schedules, local coop sales director, a market advisor, government statistical agency, global transportation manager, or one of many others in the food supply chain whose continuous level of success depends on continuous timely and accurate “field” information about crop amounts, geographies, schedules, risks, etc.

For most crop production related organizations, access to integrated-daily status quantities and projections that have the most correct crop (agronomic or horticultural) data and best possible accounting for soil variables, weather, climate, and their forecasts can offer a ROI comparable to investments in land or equipment. 

Services Provided:

Crop status quantities are estimated by models that can range from detailed physical-physiological simulations, statistical sampling, visual approximations, to some combined form thereof. In today’s rapidly changing world of data and information channels, platforms, media, portals and related technologies, well-informed crop “status monitors” need to frequently add, evaluate and/or update their systems. These are some of the crucial junctures where ClimateAT consulting may be able make advantageous contributions.

The focus of ClimateAT’s expertise is centered on the various facets of operational crop model applications – system configuration, calibrations, accuracy assessment, user interfaces, etc. The assistance services may be as basic as configuring farm weather stations that supply raw data for a precision ag decision support systems to designing tests of an in-house crop yield model implementation that estimates quantities for a global supply-chain system. Key branch subjects comprising the consulting mainstreams are outlined as follows:

Crop simulation models and their applications to produce information for:

     -   crop ecosystem performance and risk assessments.  

     -   field management scheduling and decision support systems ( irrigation, plant protection, etc)

     -   field management-practice assessments for sustainability estimates.

     -   quantification and mapping (geographical) of crop genotype-phenotype performances. 

     -   regional crop production monitoring and forecasting.

     -   regional resource (land, water, transportation, research, etc) planning and management. 

     -   solar radiation, water, nitrogen and carbon use efficiencies.  

     -   soil and climate productivity ratings for crop species, cultivar, management practices, etc. 

     -   soil, climate and water change impacts and adaptation-mitigation assessments.

 Soil-weather-crop “framework” databases that are used for model inputs or reference analyses.

     -  climate statistical quantities and parameter models for probabilities, risk of extreme values, etc.

     -  climate model derived - weather simulations, climate change,  current normals, etc.

     -  crop model supplemented or derived – land use, area, yield, management trends, etc. 

     -  historical and current weather data - compilation, assessments, quality control and “fill-out”. 

     -  historical and current crop data - compilation, “clean-up” and “fill-out”. 

     -  soils data, maps and “fill-out”. 

     -  soil model derived – moisture, nitrogen, erosion, change (desertification, salinization, etc) assessments, etc. 

Fullfilment::

Since most tasks inherently involve complex, dynamic data and sciences, project success highly depends on adequate planning and design and assistance with these front-end functions may constitute a complete contract.  At the other end, ClimateAT consulting could provide a training course for your staff or a presentation for a conference. 

Also, many of  the tasks are best performed with a multidisciplinary team of expert principles and/or consultants.  To meet these broader expertise requirements,  ClimateAT partners with area sampling frame (AAIC) , remote sensing, and GIS consultants.  Other independent experts can be recommended and utilized per client and project needs.  

ClimateAT’s unique background experience, and continual dedication to keeping up with the latest technology allows it to discern the trends and evaluate feasible project options, then team up to interactively participate in the design and construction of each solution according to your scope, functionality, and level-of-innovation objectives.  In such specific case assessments, project technical support, or contract staff augmentation,  ClimateAT professional consulting can often fill a vital and cost-effective role just about anywhere in the world.