get_ag_bulletin: Get BOM agriculture bulletin information for select stations
In bomrang: Australian Government Bureau of Meteorology ('BOM') Data Client

Description Usage Arguments Details Value Author(s) References See Also Examples

Fetch the BOM agricultural bulletin information and return it in a data frame

1	get_ag_bulletin(state = "AUS")

state

Australian state or territory as full name or postal code. Fuzzy string matching via agrep is done. Defaults to “AUS” returning all state bulletins, see Details for more.

Allowed state and territory postal codes, only one state per request or all using AUS.

ACT: Australian Capital Territory (will return NSW)
NSW: New South Wales
NT: Northern Territory
QLD: Queensland
SA: South Australia
TAS: Tasmania
VIC: Victoria
WA: Western Australia
AUS: Australia, returns forecast for all states, NT and ACT

A data frame as a data.table object of Australia BOM agricultural bulletin information. For full details of fields and units returned see Appendix 3 in the bomrang vignette, use
vignette("bomrang", package = "bomrang") to view.

Adam H. Sparks, adamhsparks@gmail.com and Paul Melloy paul@melloy.com.au

Agricultural observations are retrieved from the Australian Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) Weather Data Services Agriculture Bulletins,
http://www.bom.gov.au/catalogue/observations/about-agricultural.shtml

and

Australian Bureau of Meteorology (BOM)) Weather Data Services Observation of Rainfall,
http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/how/observations/rain-measure.shtml

Station location and other metadata are sourced from the Australian Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) webpage, Bureau of Meteorology Site Numbers:
http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/cdo/about/site-num.shtml

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