Climate and Ag in the news
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The Miami Herald-Tribune noted this week that “Following last year’s hurricane season, which broke Florida’s nearly 11-year streak without a hurricane making landfall here, a number of new warnings are being unveiled by the National Hurricane Center to better notify those in a storm’s path, the organization’s acting director said Wednesday at the annual Governor’s…
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The World Meteorological Organization recently published a list of the world’s deadliest storms. None of these storms has occurred since 1994, which means that weather services around the world are likely improving their ability to predict and warn for these storms. In addition, vulnerability of people in the most susceptible areas has been reduced by…
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The Vegetable and Specialty Crop News posted a story this week about the adverse effects of the dry conditions in parts of Florida on vegetable production there. The warm winter allowed whiteflies and other pests to overwinter and they are now causing a tremendous challenge for tomato farmers. You can read the story at https://vscnews.com/southwest-florida-struggles-whiteflies-drought/.
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The Vegetable and Specialty Crop News posted a story this week about the development of tea as a new specialty crop in the Southeast. Of course there have been some tea plantations in the South in the past, but a Florida researcher is looking into adding tea to the bouquet of specialty crops growing in…
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Have you ever heard the comment that in the 1970s climate scientists were talking about global cooling? I get this statement frequently when I give talks to the public. And yet, this was proven false a decade ago. This article from the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (which popped up in my Facebook feed…
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WSB-TV produced a story earlier this week noting that this year the first reported poisonous snakebite of the year happened in the first week of January, which was a record according to Dr. Gaylord Lopez of the Georgia Poison Control Center. He attributed the large number of calls so early in the year to the lack…
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Bryant Wynes of The Packer has a good short summary of agricultural impacts of the March freeze and the warm winter on Georgia agriculture, including some of the expected impacts on yield. You can read it here.