The project objective was to build on an earlier project and fill some gaps in the Walgett area which do not have adequate weather information which growers can utilise to make management decisions and to help in reducing the level of off-target spray drift.

The objectives were to establish more weather stations and build local knowledge of wind and temperature so as to reduce the incidence of spray drift in areas which are devoid of accurate weather information. The initial objective was to purchase one, more expensive weather station and three inversion towers to collaborate with a CRDC project looking at predicting inversion risk. We soon established that inversion towers were not very accurate and businesses were unwilling to supply and support due to the possible risk of legal responsibility and along with this the weather data was still not accurate enough to include in the CRDC project anyway. It was then decided that a better use of funding would be to fill in more of the gaps where weather information is not available and purchase three weather station to be hosted hosted on the Ozforcast website.