Title 7 — AgricultureRelease 119-73not60

§5851 Short Title and Purposes

Title 7 › Chapter 88— RESEARCH › Subchapter III— NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL WEATHER INFORMATION SYSTEM › § 5851

Last updated Apr 3, 2026|Official source

Summary

Creates a national system to give farmers the weather and climate information they need. It brings together universities, State programs, Federal agencies, and private weather services to collect, organize, and share advisory weather and climate information for agriculture. It supports research and training to make forecasts better, including short-term storm warnings and longer-range models. It encourages private companies to provide services and teach farmers how to use them, and it requires weather and climate databases to be highly accurate, well documented, and easy to access by computer.

Full Legal Text

Title 7, §5851

Agriculture — Source: USLM XML via OLRC

(a)This subchapter may be cited as the “National Agricultural Weather Information System Act of 1990”.

(b)The purposes of this subchapter are—

(1)to provide a nationally coordinated agricultural weather information system, based on the participation of universities, State programs, Federal agencies, and the private weather consulting sector, and aimed at meeting the weather and climate information needs of agricultural producers;

(2)to facilitate the collection, organization, and dissemination of advisory weather and climate information relevant to agricultural producers, through the participation of the private sector and otherwise;

(3)to provide for research and education on agricultural weather and climate information, aimed at improving the quality and quantity of weather and climate information available to agricultural producers, including research on short-term forecasts of thunderstorms and on extended weather forecasting techniques and models;

(4)to encourage, where feasible, greater private sector participation in providing agricultural weather and climate information, to encourage private sector participation in educating and training farmers and others in the proper utilization of agricultural weather and climate information, and to strengthen their ability to provide site-specific weather forecasting for farmers and the agricultural sector in general; and

(5)to ensure that the weather and climate data bases needed by the agricultural sector are of the highest scientific accuracy and thoroughly documented, and that such data bases are easily accessible for remote computer access.

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Citation

7 U.S.C. § 5851

Title 7 — Agriculture

Last Updated

Apr 3, 2026

Release point: 119-73not60