The Joint Agricultural Weather Facility's (JAWF) primary mission is to monitor global weather and determine it's potential impacts on agriculture. JAWF meteorologists rely heavily on weather and climate data from international and U.S. sources. Consequently, one of JAWF's most critical tasks is to process large volumes of data in an efficient and timely manner, and to generate products and agricultural assessments that are meaningful to the user community. For over two decades, JAWF has developed techniques for the acquisition, processing, and archival of these data, creating a blend of "existing" and "newly-developed" methods and products used in agrometeorological data management and analysis. A new Database Management System (DBMS) is currently under development that will be driven by OracleŽ software. Once fully implemented, the DBMS will replicate the capabilities of the existing operational system, while effectively handling larger volumes of available information.