Climate and Ag in the news
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From 2012 to 2018 I worked as a grant-funded agricultural climatologist on USDA-funded projects looking at the impacts of the changing climate on agriculture in the Southeast. There are a lot of negative impacts that are expected in the future due to warmer temperatures (especially nighttime temperatures), higher humidity, and more frequent floods and droughts,…
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Brad Haire reported in the Southeast Farm Press today that the recent rain that has spread across Georgia in the last few weeks has helped improve corn conditions in the 20% of corn in the state that is not irrigated. A three-week dry spell had farmers worried about yield, but those producers have been relieved…
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The Southeast Regional Climate Hub recently released a recording of David Zierden’s talk on agricultural resilience to hurricanes, first given at their workshop in November 2018. Zierden is the Florida State Climatologist and a long-time colleague of mine. You can view the 35-minute video at https://mediasite.video.ufl.edu/Mediasite/Play/c953658392a741d1b3f7a287886cfd7a1d.
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It’s official! North Carolina set a new record for annual rainfall in 2018 when Mount Mitchell reported 139.94 inches of rain. That’s over 11 feet! You can read about how the rainfall was observed and what it takes to get a new record certified at the blog of the State Climate Office of North Carolina…
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The Atlantic has been pretty quiet so far this tropical season, but that may be about to change. A low pressure center now located along the border of Georgia and Tennessee is expected to slowly drift south over the eastern Gulf of Mexico in the next few days. The warm water there could lead to…
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In the news today (see first story below) was a story that we can put a dent in climate change by planting billions or even trillions of trees, which will absorb and store carbon dioxide. While that will help slow the increase in CO2 in the atmosphere, it really only buys some time, since the…
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Here is a long but interesting investigative story about how farmers in Saskatchewan, Canada, are dealing with changes in climate in their region over time. In Canada, they are seeing warmer temperatures, longer growing seasons, and more frequent extreme rainfall as well as drought. The farmers have taken a variety of approaches to dealing with…