Climate and Ag in the news
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More heartbreaking stories continue to come out of northeast Nebraska and surrounding areas hit hard by flooding. I saw a picture yesterday of Highway 2 near Nebraska City looking east towards I-29 and realized that I drove on that road just last summer headed to a meeting of climatologists. Now it’s under a wide river…
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The latest monthly Water Resources Outlook video from the National Weather Service has been posted to YouTube. You can view it at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWQJKSsEASs&feature=youtu.be.
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The Southeast Farm Press posted an interesting story today which describes how weather and climate impact the development of a uniform field of corn, which is key to getting the top yields. One of things that is needed is a string of 4 days in a row with temperatures at or above 60 F. This…
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Here’s a story from the end of January (so a little dated) which has a pretty good description of how climate is changing in the Midwest, where I am from. Yes, it’s from BuzzFeed so tilts towards climate change activism, but overall the science is good and based on the National Climate Assessment. Some of…
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While this blog is mainly about climate and its impacts on agriculture, sometimes the news gets in the way and we look a little more broadly about food. I thought this article from Bloomberg about what folks in the UK would eat if Brexit held up imports. No daily tea? It made me think about…
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The Packer published an interesting story this week about problems that Florida peach producers are having in peach production. Because Florida is so warm, they need to use special varieties of peaches that have low chill-hour requirements compared to peaches in Georgia and South and North Carolina. But the warm conditions over winter the last…
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NOAA released their latest seasonal outlook this week. It shows that the widespread flooding that is affecting parts of the US is likely to continue through spring, which could potentially be devastating for farmers. You can read about the Spring Flood Outlook here. The Pew Trust has an interesting story about spring floods and the…