Weather School

[silverback]

The cwb is advertising their weather school in calgary in a big way lately. I am mildly interested if only to see what it would be about.

However, can someone please explain how this one day course is really going to improve my decision making now and into the future?

I have been around a long time so I have pretty much figured out that if it rains that is good and when it doesn't that is bad, if it rains too much I need some fungicide, and if it gets too hot I will lose some yield in my canola.

Honestly, will this course help me or not? I might go anyway because it says it is free.

[TOM4CWB]

Silverback,

We are developing weather based crop insurance that could be a good alternative to production insurance as now offered through Fed./Prov. systems.

This new system is temp./rainfall driven, specified preset limits will create the insurance to be bought.

We are setting it up to be web based, with templates and opportunity to run senerios through past years weather data to see if the policy being purchased would come close to expectations.

I believe one day we will have GPS coordinated weather stations, linked online through celltowers, and be able to get info from small areas that will be very acurate.

I will report back... if you decide not to go!

[TOM4CWB]

Silverback,

OH DEAR!

"This workshop has been cancelled. It will be rescheduled for the fall..."

THis should make Mr. Hin Happy... one less meeting for me to go to next week!

[silverback]

What happened? I was going to go.

No interest? I would really be interested in a weather station at our farm to support our insurance levels!

[wilagro]

They tried weather based forage insurance a few years ago. What a bloody joke...determining ones compensation by widely separated rain gauges was disastrous. Many people got shortchanged and indeed robbed by this flawed scheme.

If applied to a grain growing scenario, it would have to be tailored to individual tamperproof sensors over an extensive area to be accurate and fair.

Sounds costly to me.

Oh well, farmers grow money every year. No problem.

[JD4ME]

Maybe the only people going were Tom and Silverback and they figured no point putting it on for people that would then just blame the CWB for the weather too.
LOL

[BennyHin]

Could be a security issue, you know, with all the personal threats these days. We are living in sad times

[parsley]

Only out of the mouth of a seasoned tattletale would staements like that be uttered.

Yuk.

Parsley

[TOM4CWB]

Mr. Hin;

You Said: "Could be a security issue, you know, with all the personal threats these days. We are living in sad times"

Question:

1.)Were the weathermen threatened by growers because of a bad forcasting record/system?

Or

2.)Were there "singledeskers" threatening CIGI and the CWB; because Silverback & I were going?

[silverback]

If someone buys prime airtime on the leading radio stations to advertise an upcoming event, do the commercials need to keep running even after a cancellation???

The cwb is still advertising for this weather school as of 10 minutes ago.

[wilagro]

Silverback: Maybe the CWB has some of YOUR surplus money to spend.

Hahahahahahahahahahahaha

[silverback]

... and that is funny how ??

[wilagro]

silverback: Well...you guys are always claiming that the CWB is not returning all of the money.

[wedino]

wilagro, Well this statement you make ""Well...you guys are always claiming that the CWB is not returning all of the money.""

You know it is true!!

[silverback]

Well Wilagro, if you were still a farmer, they would be using your surplus money also.

The only difference is that you would still think that your money is better spent by someone else.