October 2016
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The Southeast Farm Press reported that several livestock drought meetings are planned for north Alabama. The first meeting is in Scottsboro on November 1. Topics covered at the meetings will include winter annual planting, commodity feed options, pasture and hay inventory, feeder cattle marketing and fall cow checks. You can read more about the meetings plus…
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Here are some fun facts on Halloween tornadoes from ustornadoes.com. No worries about tornadoes today with strong high pressure over the Southeast! https://www.ustornadoes.com/2013/10/28/halloween-tornadoes-the-spooky-historical-facts/.
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The Huffington Post had a scary article this week about the terrible drought that is occurring in Alabama (and Georgia and parts of the Carolinas). Some farmers say that they have never seen it so bad in their lifetimes. Impacts include corn yields at 1/3 of normal values, dried-up streams and pastures and potential impacts…
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For the first time ever in recorded human history, the level of carbon dioxide for the full year was above 400 parts per million. Proxy data tell us that the last time it was at this level was 3.5 million years ago. This was most likely aided by the strong El Niño, since the droughts…
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In the community I grew up in, we did not celebrate Halloween, instead we celebrated Reformation Day. It’s probably no surprise that I went to college at a school named after John Calvin and ended up marrying someone named John Knox! But for all of you who celebrate Halloween, I hope it’s a happy and…
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Several articles out this week described continuing efforts by farmers in southeast Georgia and eastern North Carolina to determine the damage caused by the wind and flooding rain from Hurricane Matthew a few weeks ago. In North Carolina, Modern Farmer reported here that while livestock farmers are starting to compost dead chickens and deal with 3300…
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Have you voted yet? I have! No matter which candidate wins in November, they will face many scientific challenges in the years of their presidency, including impacts from weather and climate. Weather forecasting in the US has fallen behind other nations, and that becomes especially important when short-term disasters like hurricanes or floods threaten. Climate…
Posted in: Climate and Ag in the news