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Agrometeorology

Soil Sciences

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. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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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

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Precision Agriculture, Practices

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

Source Agrometeorology (Wikipedia)
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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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