Agriculture, Fisheries and Aquaculture

The Enhanced Farm Weather Forecast Service is a cooperative project of the Prince Edward Island Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Aquaculture and ENvironment Canada. The goal of the program is to provide primary producers from the various areas of the province with a weather forecast specific to their area and their farming activities. This includes weather information of particular interest to farmers such as the drying index, daily evapotranspiration estimates and growing degree day accumulations. The forecasts are faxed or e-mailed to producers at 5:00 am daily and can be used to assist in planning field work, schedule spraying or arrange any other weather dependent task.

This site specific weather forecast is the output of a weather simulation model developed at the Maritimes Weather Centre in Dartmouth and the Canadian Climate Centre in Montreal. Site specific forecast are available for the O'Leary, Kensington, Harrington, and Souris areas. The model generates a forecast specific for the area surrounding of each of the provincial weather monitoring stations. The weather prediction model provides a means of delivering detailed weather information to producers at a reasonable cost.

The Prince Edward Island Department of Agriculture is once again offering the Enhanced Farm Weather Forecast Program for the 2006 growing season. As in other years,the service will start on May 1st, 2006 and conclude on October 31st, 2006.

The fee is $50.00 for one site - for the season. For clients wishing to receive forecasts for 2 or more sites, the charge is $75.00 for the season. If you are interested in participating in this year's program, please fill out the form below and press submit or fax information to: 902-368-5661

(Please do not send money at this time. Clients will be invoiced at the end of the Season)

Please Note: There will be no forecast offered for the South Hampton station this year.