The FWFA Climate Coaching for On-farm Decision Making project leveraged the five new Bureau of Meteorology forecast products for extreme events and knowledge from the original FWFA project to develop high quality, practical, useful extension packages that could be used across Southern Australia.

Multiple industry partners were involved in the project representing the livestock, wine, cotton, grains, sugar and dairy industries. Agriculture Victoria developed an eLearning package that was used to extend the products. This was utilised to assist in developing the training program and industry decision support tools were developed for all six industries.

The FWFA Climate Coaching for On-farm Decision Making project created a training program and framework for advisors and producers to build understanding, skill and confidence with forecasting and the use of the Bureau’s new extreme weather event tools in on-farm decision making.

Project lead

Meat and Livestock Australia

Project funding

The Forewarned is Forearmed (FWFA) project was supported by funding from the Australian Government, Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry as part of its Rural R&D for Profit program.

Support was also received from project partners, including the Australian Government's Future Drought Fund, the Southern NSW Innovation Hub, the Bureau of Meteorology, Meat and Livestock Australia, the Grains Research and Development Corporation, The Queensland Government Department of Agriculture and Fisheries, Agriculture Victoria, AgriFutures Australia, Australian Pork, BCG Shared Solutions, Cotton Research and Development Corporation, Dairy Australia, Monash University, South Australian Research and Development Institute, Sugar Research Australia, the University of Melbourne, the University of Queensland and Wine Australia.

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