February 2017
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Drovers Newsletter had a really interesting article this week on one livestock producer’s methods for getting ready to deal with drought. You can find it here. Some of his adaptation methods include having at least a year’s worth of food onsite and keeping cows that could be easily culled in a separate herd so you…
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After months of waiting, the Special Master to the Supreme Court announced today that he was recommending that Georgia win the lawsuit by Florida which aimed to cap the amount of water that could be used by Georgia before allowing it to flow to Florida. The State of Florida contended that Georgia was unlawfully taking…
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Iowa State University has announced a new set of publications discussing the impacts of weather and climate on several specialty crops. The publications are listed collectively as “Climate and Weather: Specialty Crop Growers’ Views and Priorities to Manage Uncertainty in Production Systems.” While most these publications are aimed at folks from the Midwest, there is…
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Clint Thompson of UGA has written a story featuring Dr. Bob Kemerait on the negative impacts of our warm winter on crops in the Southeast. The warmer temperatures have allowed “volunteer” peanuts or “volunteer cotton plants to regrow, increasing nematode populations and allowing crop diseases to shelter in place over the winter months. Dr. Kemerait…
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So far this month, we have seen well above normal temperatures and dry conditions across most of the Southeast. Most stations are in their top ten warmest for the month so far, and since warm conditions are expected to continue for most of the next two weeks, it would not surprise me if the final…
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Drovers Newsletter posted a story today describing some of the continuing impacts of the Southeastern drought on cattle production. Fortunately, recent rains and cooler temperatures over the winter have improved the drought conditions significantly, but with warmer and drier conditions now occurring again, this could mean more problems for farmers down the road. You can…
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The Macon Telegraph ran a story earlier this week on the impacts of the unusually warm winter on chill hours for peaches. As I mentioned in a post a few days ago, the number of chill hours accumulated over this winter is only about half of the normal number of chill hours. Peaches need a…