Agri-Climate Outlooks
Agri-Climate Outlooks (ACO) is a four-year program focused on improving and enhancing seasonal outlook services provided to Australian farmers, fishers, and foresters to support better decision-making and greater resilience.
The program will develop decision-specific digital forecast tools and products tailored to specific commodities. It also supports improvements to Australia's dedicated weather forecast modelling system.
ACO is a collaboration across AgriFutures Australia, Australian Eggs, Australian Wool Innovation, Cotton Research and Development Corporation, Dairy Australia, Fisheries Research and Development Corporation, Grains Research and Development Corporation, Hort Innovation, Meat & Livestock Australia and Sugar Research Australia., via Agricultural Innovation Australia, delivered by the Bureau of Meteorology.
There are five Agri-Climate Outlooks workstreams, covering products, services, support and industry capability building:
- Establishment of a dedicated team of agri-climate specialists to provide relevant insights to support farmers, fishers and foresters (growers) with decision-making.
- Upskilling and training for growers and their advisers to accurately interpret and utilise weather, climate and water products to inform agricultural decisions.
- Development of easy to understand, decision-specific forecast products delivered via appropriate digital channels.
- Development of methods to overlay skill on the Bureau's seasonal outlook products and promote the methods as best practice to other seasonal outlook service providers.
- Improvements to Australia's high calibre sovereign seasonal forecasting, through improved accuracy of multi-week to seasonal forecasts. This will help ensure the future stability of the Australian agriculture sector and increase the potential magnitude of benefits delivered via Workstreams 1-4.
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