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  • Adaptation Practices, Planning

    Soil Moisture Sensors: A Tool for Smart Irrigation Management Decisions

    September 4, 2025 • UNH Extension

    A fact sheet on the use of soil moisture sensors on farms. Includes grower experiences, sensor types, installation, and interpretation of the readings.

  • Planning

    Soil Temperature Map

    September 4, 2025 • GreenCast Syngenta

    Soil temperature over a specified period of time anywhere in the US.

  • Planning

    SWOT Analysis of Your Farm's Climate Adaptation Resilience

    September 4, 2025 • Joshua Faulkner • UVM Extension

    A SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats) template for a farm's climate change resilience. Also includes tabs on assessing strategies, from financial to production to labor, and a resilience action plan template.

  • Planning, Climate Impacts

    The Climate Toolbox

    September 4, 2025 • University of California Merced

    A collection of web tools for visualizing past and projected climate and hydrology in the US.

  • Planning, Adaptation Practices

    The Forest Farmers Handbook

    December 26, 2025 • Rural Action, United Plant Savers, and Appalachian Sustainable Development

    Diversifying into forest products is a good strategy to spread out climate related risk for any farm, but it's not without it's own challenges and strategies that need to be understood. This guide is a great starting point for any farm business considering farming the woods.

  • Planning

    Transforming Climate Variability and Change Information for Cereal Crop Producers

    September 4, 2025 • U2U: Useful to Usable

    Dozens of tools for cereal crop producers to dial in production and planning, from profitability of post-plant nitrogen applications, to historical climate data, to irrigation investment calculators, and much more.

  • Planning

    UMass Veg Notes

    September 4, 2025 • UMass Extension

    A newsletter that is weekly during the growing season with crop conditions, pest alerts, news, events, and detailed articles on everything from pest management to labor issues to post-harvest best practices.

  • Planning, Funding

    Urban Agriculture Tool Kit

    September 4, 2025 • USDA

    A toolkit for urban farmers covering start-up costs, land access, access to capital, mentorship, infrastructure, production strategies, applying for grants, market development, and indoor growing systems.

  • Planning, Adaptation Practices

    US Pest

    September 4, 2025 • Oregon State University

    IPM pest and disease modeling and forecasting. Includes pest-specific data and other factors such as growing-degree days.

  • Planning

    US Topo: Maps for America

    September 4, 2025 • USGS

    Current and historical US topographic maps available as digital files or printed to order. You can also create maps.

  • Planning

    USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map

    September 4, 2025 • USDA

    The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map helps growers select perennial plants based on average minimum winter temperatures.

  • Planning

    Veggie Compass

    September 4, 2025 • University of Wisconsin-Madison

    Veggie Compass helps diversified vegetable farmers analyze crop and market profitability using detailed farm data to support better decisions.

  • Planning, Adaptation Practices

    Water Deficit Calculator

    November 21, 2025 • Art DeGaetano & Brian Belcher • Cornell Climate Smart Farming Program

    The CSF Water Deficit Calculator estimates soil water content in the root zone to inform decision making about current and forecasted water deficits.

  • Planning

    Web Soil Survey

    September 4, 2025 • USDA NRCS

    Web Soil Survey provides online access to NRCS soil maps and data for farm planning, covering over 95% of U.S. counties.

  • Planning

    Wind Rose

    September 4, 2025 • Meteoblue

    Historical weather data, including wind direction and intensity.