Climate and Ag in the news
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Even though it’s been dry in the Southeast, other parts of the country are experiencing extensive flooding that is causing significant damage to crops. AgWeb posted a story a few days ago describing the potential loss of up to one million acres due to flooding along the Missouri, Mississippi and other rivers in the Midwest.…
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The importance of bees and other pollinators on food production cannot be understated, since without pollinators most plants could not produce food and seeds for future plants. Here are two recent stories I read that discuss two different aspects of how the changing climate is affecting pollinators. The first story, from Morning Ag Clips, reviews…
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The dry conditions that have grown across a lot of the Southeast in the past few weeks have put a lot of stress on many crops, but probably none more so than corn. As I have driven across Georgia in the past couple of weeks, I have seen a lot of dryland corn fields looking…
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Do you know why summer is the hottest season? It’s not because the earth is closest to the sun then. In fact, on July 5 the earth reached its farthest distance from the sun, a point that is called “aphelion” (I think of it as “a” for “away”). The Northern Hemisphere is hottest in June…
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In the Southeast, agricultural producers have started to add new crops to the mix of traditional commodity and specialty crops as the climate and the markets have been changing. Some of those crops include cold-hardy citrus in Georgia and Alabama, olives, and pomegranates. Here is an interesting story in National Geographic about how the warming…
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If you have lived in several parts of the country, it might not surprise you to know that weather forecast accuracy is not the same everywhere. This is because some places like South Florida see the same weather almost every day of the year, where the Northeast gets frequent cold and warm fronts and also…
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With Major Hurricane Beryl now steaming west in the Atlantic Ocean towards the Caribbean, the Atlantic hurricane season is now underway with a vengeance. While it does not look like Beryl or the storm immediately behind her will affect us in the Southeast, a storm in the not-too-distant future may be more of a problem.…