BASF & Salient Long-Range Weather Forecast

By: Successful Farming Staff

BASF has signed a global commercial agreement with Salient Predictions, Inc. (Salient) to provide customers with access to accurate long-range, seasonal weather forecasting data to further enable precise agronomic decisions.

The decision to use Salient services was based on its demonstrated ability to provide the best long-range and seasonal weather forecasting, with up to double the accuracy rate compared with other available services, say officials for both firms. Salient achieves this by leveraging proprietary algorithms based on a wide range of climate predictors, including a core focus on ocean data such as sea surface salinity readings, that can uniquely extract predictive signals from long-range weather patterns, say Salient officials.