WRF Self-Assessment
At the start of the program, each participant takes a self-assessment upon acceptance into the certification program. The self-assessment (see below) allows both the participant and the certification program team to: 1) understand what practices the participant is already doing to reduce the impact of climate variation and extreme weather on the farm; and 2) develop a learning plan for the participant.
The self-assessment is divided into three phases: 1, 2, and 3.
• Phase 1 encompasses introductory practices to increase farm resilience to extreme weather.
• Phase 2 includes practices that are intermediate in their approaches to increase farm resilience to extreme weather. These practices may require more time and resources to implement.
• Phase 3 includes advanced management practices that are the most time and resource intensive.
See the Nebraska Extension Weather Ready Farms Self-Assessment at https://weather-ready.unl.edu/farms
Soil moisture sensors are a great way to increase irrigation efficiency. Photo from Tyler Williams, University of Nebraska, 2018.
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