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Usually you think of most of Australia as pretty dry, and in fact they have been in a drought until recently. But the flooding rains that fell in the past few weeks has caused tremendous loss of cattle due to the extensive flooding that has occurred over the northeast part…
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Valentine’s Day is always a big deal for strawberry producers who want to sell lots of chocolate-covered, juicy berries to lovers across the country. This year’s harvest in both California and Florida have been hampered by bad weather, which has delayed harvest. In California, cold and wet weather has damaged…
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WSFA 12 News posted an interesting story about a rash of unexplained cattle deaths in parts of Alabama, Georgia and Florida in the months following the passage of Hurricane Michael back in October. Veterinarians in the area have seen a number of mysterious deaths which they think can be attributed…
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If you don’t know much about Iran, you might think it is a desert country. And there are certainly very dry areas in the large country, but there is also a lot of agriculture there, with production of both crops and livestock. But in recent years, severe drought has taken…
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If you love history, you will be fascinated by this story about a stubborn meteorologist who made the crucial forecast for the launch of the first US satellite in January 1958 following the flight of the USSR’s Sputnik in late 1957 . They could not afford to get the launch…
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A new study released earlier this week by Nature Communications shows that in recent years, hurricanes in the Atlantic have been strengthening more quickly than in previous decades, according to a study by a number of US hurricane experts. We saw that this past year with Hurricane Michael, which strengthened…
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AgWeb posted an interesting story this week about the increase in the use of drought-tolerant hybrids of corn in recent years. The first seeds with drought tolerance were made available in 2011 and the percent of corn acreage planted with the new hybrids has grown to over 20% since then….
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