In 2001, the Pacific Field Corn Association (PFCA), a non-profit society, developed the Farmwest website as a non-profit venture, in partnership with the BC Ministry of Agriculture and Food, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, and Irrigation Industry Association of BC.
The website provides a public portal to access a wide variety of agricultural resources, such as, weather data, weather-based decision aid calculators, corn hybrid trial results, publication, and research papers, to support the agricultural industry. Thanks to the Ministry (main sponsor) and other sponsors for their financial and technical contribution to the weather network and calculators over the years.
In 2025, the BC Ministry of Agriculture and Food launched the BC AgriWeather website which is owned and operated by the Ministry. Since then, the relevant weather calculators and webpages on Farmwest reside on BC AgriWeather website where users can access and download data from weather stations across Canada, at no costs to users. While the research information remains on Farmwest, the Ministry continues to provide weather data from the BC AgriWeather website to Farmwest to support PFCA’s research files.
