We have just finished the first month of the official Atlantic hurricane season. How unusual has it been? One thing is that we have already had three named storms, including Colin this past week (although the last time we had TS Colin in 2016, it occurred on June 6). The…
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The dry weather has had many impacts on our Southeast farmers this year. One of the consequences is that while disease pressure has been fairly low, the pests are out in full force. This is true for almost every crop. This story by Clint Thompson in Specialty Crop Industry discusses…
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In the month of June, drought increased across Georgia significantly, going from just 9% at the end of May to 54% by the end of the month. Many of you have told me you think even that is an underestimate of how bad things are. One of the problems with…
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You might think that summer is warmer than winter because the earth is closer to the sun. But in fact, the earth’s orbit takes us farthest from the sun in summer, on a date called the aphelion. This year’s aphelion is today, July 4. EarthSky posted an interesting story from…
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Lenny Wells of the University of Georgia posted an interesting story in his Pecan Blog a couple of weeks ago on the impacts of heat on pecan trees when temperatures were so warm. It turns out that pecans can do well in very high temperatures as long as they have…
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The latest monthly climate summary for June 2022 is now available from the North Carolina State Climate Office. The blog post discusses how dry NC was in June, contributing to the expansion of drought in parts of the state last month. You can read more at Summer Starts with Scarce…
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Those of you who are interested in history might enjoy taking a look at this interactive timeline of agriculture in the United States at https://growinganation.org/. It provides a list of agricultural innovations and societal changes and events that affected growing crops in the U. S., broken into five different eras…
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