Improved Use of Seasonal Forecasting to Increase Farmer Profitability – Birchip

Birchip Cropping Group Inc

  • Project code: PRJ-010348

  • Project stage: Closed

  • Project start date: Sunday, November 1, 2015

  • Project completion date: Tuesday, May 1, 2018

  • National Priority: ISF - Improved Seasonal Forecasting

Summary

The services to be delivered by the contract are outlined in the Program Plan at Attachment 1, which is drawn from the Program Head Agreement at Attachment 2. The
Project Activities, Outputs, KPI’s and responsibilities are at Attachment 3.
The Role of BCG is to deliver and support delivery (as defined in Attachment 3) Activity
4. Improving use of seasonal climate forecasts, Activity 5. Identifying the enablers and
barriers to the use of seasonal climate information to on-farm decision making and
Activity 6. Skilling farmers and advisers to best apply climate data in their decision
making. This will include delivery of relevant outputs and KPIs.

Program

Improved Seasonal Forecasting

Research Organisation

Birchip Cropping Group Inc