The Bureau of Meteorology station is kilometres away and doesn't capture what's happening in your paddock. An on-farm automatic weather station gives you local rainfall, temperature, humidity, wind speed, and evapotranspiration plus all the punchy agronomic calculations — the data you actually need to make good decisions.
Weather data is the foundation of almost every on-farm decision — from irrigation scheduling and spray windows to frost risk and harvest planning. Our automatic weather stations log continuously and stream data to BushLinx® in real time, so you always have the full picture at your fingertips.
On-farm forecasts and hyperlocal forecasts transform decisions about what is currently going on into a tool to plan farm activities. See what the spraying window is tomorrow, how many hours of harvest can I get in before the fire danger rating gets too high and how long will the high fire danger period last for? All the weather insights farming requires. All in advance from your own property not from the BoM station 40km away.
The requirements of recording weather whilst performing farm activities are only increasing, not decreasing. A BushLinx weather station means you're prepared, and satisfying the regulators as well as making planning of farm activities much easier.
A weather station tells you what's happened. A forecast tells you what's coming. Through our partnership with Janes Weather, BushLinx customers can access forecast data displayed seamlessly alongside their on-farm observations right through the platform. The standard On-Farm Forecast generates a location-specific forecast for your weather station site — no more relying on the nearest town's reading from 40 kilometres away.
For those who want the best available forecast for their property, the On-Farm Hyperlocal Forecast takes things further. Your private station's data is fed directly into Janes Weather's AI and machine learning forecast models, which use your real on-farm observations to generate a forecast calibrated specifically to your location. It's forecast technology that learns from your paddock — and the most accurate farm-level forecast you can get.
We offer both a standard configuration of sensors and the ability to customise the sensors you want. Advanced weather stations are the go-to for cropping, having a high quality sensor set good enough to feed your data into a hyperlocal forecast to maximise the benefits you get from an on-farm weather station. The standard configuration of the Advanced weather station is the most common we deploy in cropping, with some customers also wanting to add a leaf wetness sensor for hay bailing and disease pressure applications. Others wanting to monitor temperature inversions add a VTD sensor — vertical temperature difference — to measure the presence of a temperature inversion for responsible spraying applications.
A standard configuration of sensors and a more limited ability to customise the sensors you want. Standard weather stations are the go-to for general purpose use cases, having a sensor set suited to use cases such as environmental monitoring and stock enterprises. The standard configuration of the weather station is the most common we deploy in environmental monitoring where additional sensors are not required.
All weather data streams directly to the BushLinx® platform where it is graphed, tabled, interrogated, calculated, predicted and forecasted — then archived, and available to you and your agronomist from any device. Set alerts for frost events, wind thresholds, or fire danger ratings — and share your station data with your advisors and friends. We are adding API connections to other platforms and softwares to allow data flow to other programs. Get in touch if you're interested.
Tim can help you work out the right system for your property and budget.
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