Climate and Ag in the news
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The latest NOAA report for the US for July 2016 is out and shows that Florida reported its warmest July ever this year, with Georgia and South Carolina as well as the entire Southeast at 3rd warmest and North Carolina as the 4th warmest. The Southeast was 11th driest on record (1895-present). You can see…
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I read an interesting story this morning about how Iowa farmers are contributing to a move to restore prairie across parts of the US. Prairie originally covered much of the central US, and contained an amazingly diverse array of plants, animals and insects. The roots of the prairie plants went deep and helped hold the…
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Have you ever driven past a field of sunflowers and seen them all facing the same direction? They seem to follow the sun. But how do they do it? I saw a fascinating story this week about scientists who finally figured out the mechanism for growth that allows the sunflowers to move with the sun…
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The Capital Weather Gang has a thoughtful article today describing the current drought of major hurricanes hitting the US and why it is so worrisome. The streak has reached 3,939 days, two years longer than any previous drought. The drought for Florida is more than ten years, and for Georgia much longer than that. The…
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For those of you who have been watching the increasing drought in the Southeast with dismay, this may be the week you were looking for. A change in the pattern has brought a slow-moving low pressure system to the Southeast Gulf coast, and it looks like it will stick around for most of the week.…
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The Washington Post published an interesting article this week on new evidence found to support their legend on the founding of the first dynasty. In a new paper published Thursday in the journal Science, Wu and his colleagues describe geological evidence for a catastrophic flood on the Yellow River in about 1900 B.C. — right around the…
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I want to give a quick shout-out to two UGA gardening blogs that got recognized in the top 100 garden blog list recently. You can find the entire list at https://blog.feedspot.com/gardening-blogs/. The first blog is the Center for Urban Agriculture’s blog at https://ugaurbanag.com/gardens/ which is put together by Becky Griffin, Extension Community and School Garden Coordinator. The…