Climate and Ag in the news
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The Southeast Farm Press published a gallery of 14 images of storm-damaged crops from the South Carolina flood earlier this week. You can see them here. I heard today on National Public Radio that direct estimates of agricultural losses from the storm are estimated at $30 million, but I haven’t been able to find the story…
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The latest NOAA ENSO blog shows some statistics on how El Niño affects the number of rainy days in winter. From previous discussion on this blog, we know that many parts of the Southeast get more rain than normal in El Niño winters, but this shows that the number of rainy days also increases, as…
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NASA released a photo from the Terra satellite showing the evidence of the South Carolina flooding as seen from space. Here it is, as annotated by the NWS Wilmington NC office.
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Impacts of the recent rain in South Carolina and surrounding areas on agriculture are continuing to come in. The Southeast Farm Press ran an article this morning describing the “one-two” punch of a summer drought (which reduced yields by 50%) and the floods, which dropped the expected yields for many crops down to 30% of last year’s…
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Former USDA Chairman Dan Glickman has written an opinion piece in Agri-Pulse discussing the future of farming as the climate changes. It was originally pointed out to me by the Southeast Regional Climate Hub in an article here. You can read the original op-ed from Agri-Pulse at https://www.agri-pulse.com/Climate-change-and-agriculture-challenges-and-opportunities-09222015.asp. Glickman spends some time discussing adaptations that farmers…
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One of the first stories to come out from South Carolina about the impacts of the flooding on agriculture was published yesterday in the Post and Courier with the title above. The flooding hit at a critical time for farmers, near the end of the growing season when many crops are close to harvest if…
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The State Climate Office of North Carolina has produced a short summary of the rainfall in the heavy rain event this past weekend. You can access it at https://climate.ncsu.edu/climateblog?id=156&h=5666e5c1.
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