Title 7, AgricultureRelease 119-110

§5851 Short Title and Purposes

Title 7 › CHAPTER 88 — RESEARCH › SUBCHAPTER III — NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL WEATHER INFORMATION SYSTEM › § 5851

Last updated Sep 22, 2026|Official source

Summary

Creates the National Agricultural Weather Information System Act of 1990 and sets five main goals. It calls for a nationwide weather system that includes universities, state and federal programs, and private weather companies; makes it easier to gather and share advisory weather and climate information for farmers; supports research and education to improve forecasts (including short-term thunderstorm forecasts and extended forecasting methods and models); encourages private-sector help and farmer training; and requires accurate, well-documented weather databases that can be accessed remotely.

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Title 7, §5851

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(a)Short title

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

(b)Purposes

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

Sep 22, 2026

Release point: 119-110