Climate and Ag in the news
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The Packer reported this week that after some major hassles with the start of the Florida tomato crop, producers are slowly catching up with usual amounts. And with the price much higher than last year, they are reaping the benefits. The tomato season was slowed by Hurricane Irma’s destructive path across the state, but where…
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Now that we are heading into the winter season with a vengeance, you might be wondering what is the coldest day of the year where you live. While it varies from one year to the next, of course, you can find the average coldest day using this handy map from the National Centers for Environmental…
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A new study on the impacts of providing artificial shade for cattle in Florida was recently completed by University of Florida researchers and shows that cattle that are given access to artificial shade in the hottest part of the year experience significantly more gain in weight that cattle that are not provided shade. Most previous…
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AgWeb posted a really good and complete description of all of the weather and climate events that have affected agriculture across the US in 2017 by Anna-Lisa Laca. It includes the hurricanes and March frost in the Southeast as well as flooding in central areas of the country and the exceptional drought in Montana. In…
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Clint Thompson of UGA reported on Georgia peach farmers’ hopes that this winter will provide more chill hours for their trees than the last two winters. Last year in particular was particularly devastating for peaches with consistently above-normal temperatures leading to less than half the usual number of chill hours, followed by the mid-March frost…
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The latest image from the Climate Reanalyzer shows that parts of the Arctic are a staggering 54 F above normal in temperature this week. I’m sure this is due in part to the absence of sea ice across parts of the Arctic Ocean and is also in part due to the highly wavy nature of…
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Here’s a very interesting video from NASA Goddard on how satellites have changed our views of the earth and some of the things we have learned about our planet from viewing it from space. You can view it on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oIcJBiynvw&feature=share.