The Weather Problem

Radio Record, Volume III, Issue 14, 18 October 1929, Page 9

The Weather Problem

How Broadcasting Helps the Farmer ee AS announced in last week’s issue of the "Radio Record," a special weather report is being sent out every afternoon for the benefit of the farming community. ‘Till the end of the year this forecast will be broadcast daily from 2YA (except on Sundays and Wednesdays) at 3.80 p.m. (4 p.m. summer time), while on Wednesdays it will be broadcast from each of the other stations at 4 p.m. (430 summer time). Recognising the importance which farmers place on weather reports, the

Meteorological Office, of which Dr. isidson is the Director, is co-operating wholeheartedly with the Broadcasting Company in this service to the man on the land. ‘This was demonstrated during the last harvesting season in Canterbury, when a mid-day report was supplied to and broadcast by 3¥A. Similarly, during the present lambing and shearing seasons, an afternoon report has been specially prepared and must be proving of great value to farmers.: , Few occupations, if any, are'so much at the mercy of the. weather as that of the farmer. He cannot control or. alter the weather that he gets, neither can he escape from it by moving his fields to more favoured situations. His task, therefore, and that of those whose business: it is to assist him, is. to arrange his affairs so as to make the best use of the weather that he will get. , With good forecasts, operations at the’ farm can be planned from day to day to the best advantage. He can decide, for instance, whether hay or corn harvesting shall be begun, or hay or corn carried, whether the farm hands shall be employed in field work or indoor work. It is because such forecasts can be, and are, of great value to farmers that meteorologists all over the world have striven to establish and to continually improve organisations for preparing and distributing them.