Climate and Ag in the news
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Here’s the first of four blog posts that provide a retrospective on Hurricane Florence and its impacts on North Carolina, five years after it happened, from the North Carolina State Climate Office. You can read it at Florence After Five: An Anxious Arrival – North Carolina State Climate Office (ncsu.edu) on their climate blog. Update:…
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Earlier this week, NOAA released the latest annual State of the Climate report for 2022. It contains a comprehensive summary of the climate of 2022, including the impacts of the third year of La Nina and the cooling impacts of the Hunga Tonga eruption on the stratosphere, which some think have impacted the very warm…
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Evaluations of the impact of Hurricane Idalia continue to come in. Here are some additional stories I have seen lately in newsletters and forwarded to me by David Zierden, the Florida State Climatologist. Economic costs continue to rise from the destruction of infrastructure, including peanut buying facilities, barns, chicken houses, farm equipment, and irrigation pivots.…
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Here are some stories on climate and agriculture in the news that I found interesting. Maybe you will too. Some of these may be paywalled. Modern Farmer: ‘A Silent Killer’: How Saltwater Intrusion is Overtaking Coastal Farmland in the US Washington Post: Maui’s neglected grasslands caused Lahaina fire to grow with deadly speed Los Angeles…
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Reports of damage from Hurricane Idalia continue to be collected. The Vegetable Growers News published an updated report this weekend. It discusses the damage to pecans and fruit orchards as well as the losses due to power outages. You can read it here. In addition to the article linked above, I have seen more information…
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Here is the first published report I have seen on the agricultural damage due to Hurricane Idalia from Brad Haire in Southeast Farm Press. It discusses the significant losses to the pecan crop this year along with the destruction of many vegetable plots in Florida and Georgia. While the hurricane traversed an area that was…
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If you are a small farmer, you are very susceptible to the impacts of extreme weather events like droughts, floods, heat waves, and freezes. Small farmers often have fewer resources and savings to carry them over a bad year than a larger farm operation, so without government and private loans many would have to stop…
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