Bloomberg (as reprinted in AgWeb) wrote an article this week discussing the changes that California growers have made in response to the continuing severe drought in the state and the lack of water for some crops. You can read the article here. In the article the author discusses changes such…
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On Thursday August 14 at 1 pm EDT I will be giving a webinar on work I have done as a forensic meteorologist for the CoCoRaHS group. Here is the blurb for the webinar: Television shows featuring detectives who use cutting-edge science to solve crimes are among the most popular…
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Growing Georgia reported that Sha Tao is a new UGA research scientist who specializes in the study of heat stress physiology of dairy cattle. He joined the UGA Department of Animal and Dairy Science on the Tifton Campus on July 1. You can read the story written by Clint Thompson…
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NOAA issued an update to their forecast for tropical storm activity this past week. The new forecast shows a 70 percent chance of below normal activity this year, a 20 percent chance of near normal, and only a 5 percent chance of an above normal season. Part of this forecast…
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AgWeb published an interesting article on August 6 discussing the changes that farmers have seen in their local climates and how they are adapting to them. As the Midwest has warmed, farmers are planting corn an average 0.4 days per year earlier than were back in 1981, and soybeans 0.49…
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The Washington Post had an article this week on another long-term trend in the Southeast that will affect agriculture: the growth of cities and the potential development of a megalopolis that will stretch from as far as Birmingham AL to Raleigh NC along the Piedmont. This article, based on a…
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The National Weather Service has a new interactive web site which will allow you to look at radar-estimated rainfall over a variety of time scales. You can zoom in and out, add county lines, and download data. Check it out at https://www.srh.noaa.gov/ridge2/RFC_Precip/
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