Optimizing automatic greenhouses management : The key role of accurate weather forecasts

Among the major issues faced by farmers, irrigation management stands out. Whether traditional or modern, irrigation is essential for ensuring optimal agricultural yields, but it can also be a source of waste if poorly planned. Weather forecasts thus become an indispensable tool for effective water resource management.

A REST weather API is an API following the REST semantics, that allows applications to request weather data via HTTP efficiently and standardly through a simple URL address containing a set of parameters.

The beginning of the week was particularly trying for French farmers, with morning frosts almost widespread across the north and east of the country. But how well did the Frogcast anticipate the spatial extension of the frost risk?

In a world where data reigns supreme, integrating a weather API can radically transform how businesses operate and make strategic decisions.

Missed our conference at the agricultural fair? Don’t worry, we’re offering you a chance to catch-up with the replay of our presentation on the theme: "Weather forecasts serving the optimization of agricultural practices: application to crop protection."

Frogcast will be present at the flagship event of the agricultural sector from February 24 to March 3. During this event, our meteorologist Damien Raynaud will participate in a conference on the theme of weather forecasts in service of optimizing agricultural practices.

The use of a weather API has become a common practice in the development of digital solutions. Aimed at developers, this article provides a detailed overview of weather APIs and their application in enhancing digital solutions.

In this article, we present an assessment of Frogcast predictions versus individual numerical weather prediction (NWP) models outputs for 6 atmospheric variables over a 3-month evaluation period.