Weather is going to affect your agricultural operation, so watch this quick video to learn how you can track it in Farmbrite. You'll see the preloaded history and maps, and how you can add your own gauges and logs to track your local microclimate.
Additional Articles and Videos to Explore
After you have watched the video, you can browse these articles to learn more about the specific features that you are interested in.
- Adding Gauges - A gauge is a meter or place your measure the climate. This might be a weather station that collects various data like temperature, humidity, and wind speed. Or maybe you want to track something more specific and separate from that, like the temperature in your chicken coop or the humidity in your greenhouse. You can create different gauges to track data for different areas or specific places on your farm.
- Adding Climate Logs - The climate logs are the actual data that you associate with a gauge. You can add these to record the actual data from the gauge. If your weather station can export them into a spreadsheet, you can import them too!
- History and Mapping - You'll see options for weather history and weather mapping in this section as well. These use US government and scientific data resources to populate these maps. Note that in general this data is not available outside of the US as the data is sourced from US based databases.