Friday, November 6 | 1:00–3:00 PM
Cate Hill Farm | 697 Shadow Lake Rd., Greensboro, VT
Free | Growers welcome

Your weather station can do more than tell you whether it’s going to rain.

Join Terence Bradshaw, Director of the UVM Horticulture Research and Education Center, for a hands-on grower training on getting the most from your on-farm weather station and connecting local weather data to practical crop-management decisions.

You’ll learn how to install, maintain, and use weather station data to better understand conditions in your fields and make more informed decisions about frost protection, pest management, and crop timing.

What You’ll Learn

This interactive training will cover:

• Weather station basics: Installation, placement, maintenance, and keeping your equipment producing reliable data
• Using your data: How to interpret on-farm weather information and put it to work in day-to-day crop management
• Frost protection: Using temperature and other weather data to identify vulnerable conditions and improve frost-management decisions
• Pest management: How weather data feeds predictive models that can help you better time pest-management activities
• NEWA: How your station data connects with Cornell’s Network for Environment and Weather Applications (NEWA) and its decision-support tools

Why Your Weather Data Matters

Weather conditions can vary significantly from one farm and field to the next. Regional forecasts don't always capture what is happening right where your crops are growing.

The Orleans County Farm Weather Resiliency Network is building a network of advanced, on-farm weather stations to give local growers access to more precise, site-specific climate information.

Through this initiative, KestrelMet 6000 AG weather stations will collect hyper-local weather data and feed it into NEWA, giving growers access to model-driven tools that can support decisions around pest management, frost risk, and crop protection.

The goal is simple: give growers better information so they can make better-timed decisions.

Building a More Resilient Regional Food System

The Orleans County Farm Weather Resiliency Network is part of a broader effort to strengthen local agriculture in the face of increasingly variable weather.

By connecting farms through a shared weather network, growers can learn from conditions across the region while building practical skills for using climate data on their own farms. Over time, this shared information can help strengthen crop protection, improve management timing, and support a more resilient and dependable regional food supply.

This initiative advances Orleans County's locally led priorities around food security and climate resilience by helping move agricultural decision-making toward a more connected, data-informed approach.

Who Should Attend?

This training is designed for fruit growers and other agricultural producers interested in using on-farm weather data for crop management.

Whether you're already using a weather station or are considering adding one to your farm, you'll leave with practical knowledge you can put to work during the growing season.

Event Details

Friday, November 6
1:00–3:00 PM

Cate Hill Farm
697 Shadow Lake Rd.
Greensboro, VT

Cost: Free

RSVP

Space may be limited, so please register in advance.

Register for the Weather Network & NEWA Training Day

A Regional Investment in Farm Weather Resiliency

The Orleans County Farm Weather Resiliency Network is made possible through support from the Vermont Community Foundation, UVM Department of Agriculture, Landscape, and Environment, Precision Cut Pruning, and the Orleans County NRCD Legislative Appropriations.

This training is offered in partnership with Terence Bradshaw and the UVM Horticulture Research and Education Center.

Come learn how the weather data from your own farm can become a more useful tool for protecting crops and making timely management decisions.