Climate and Ag in the news
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The State Climate Office of North Carolina has just issued Part 1 of their 2014 Climate in Review. You can read it at https://nc-climate.ncsu.edu/climateblog?id=113&h=37a460a0.
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Good soil is one of the most important things producers need to make a good crop. Today the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN launched the International Year of Soils, noting that “soils are the foundation of family farming”. For resource material on soils and the IYS 2015, you can visit https://www.fao.org/soils-2015/en/.
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There have been several recent news articles discussing the effect of bad weather and climate conditions on crops. Here are a couple of the more interesting ones. AgWeb published an article today discussing the poor barley crop that has been produced this year. Much of the crop has been moved to the western US due…
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The Capital Weather Gang at the Washington Post had an excellent article about weather forecasting myths in this week’s column (link here). Maybe you’re guilty of propagating some of these myths yourself. Do you ever say that meteorologists are usually wrong? Or use the Farmers’ Almanac to get weather predictions months in advance? Or say…
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The next rain system is moving through the Southeast this weekend, bringing wet conditions to most of the region. Once this system moves past, much colder air should blow back into the region by midweek. In some areas low temperatures will reach the teens and highs may not even reach the freezing point, so if…
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EarthSky magazine noted today that tonight the Earth will reach its closest point in its orbit to the sun, right around 1:30 am EST on the 4th. You can read about it here. Many people think that winter is caused by how far our planet is from the sun, but really the seasons are caused…
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EarthSky posted a neat article this week describing why most evergreen trees have a pyramid shape. The narrow shape on top helps reduce snow loads in the snowy climates they are often found in. The shape also helps reduce wind resistance, which is important for these trees with shallow root systems. You can read the…
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