Climate and Ag in the news
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WALB reports that after a dry few days, fields in Southwest Georgia are drying out and farmers are catching up on field work, which has been running about two weeks behind normal. For details, click here to read the story. Meanwhile, forecasts for this Memorial Day weekend indicate that temperatures on Memorial Day weekend could…
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I’ve seen a couple of interesting stories on livestock and climate in the news recently. One story, published in the Los Angeles Times, discusses how scientists at the University of Delaware are studying the genes of chicken with naked necks to see how they might be able to incorporate that trait into future varieties of…
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An article in Florida Today points out that if the predicted El Nino develops as expected, it could have good consequences for Florida, including reduction in damage due to hurricanes. Read the story here.
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Scientific American magazine reported this week on an article in Nature about some results of experiments on C3 plants in plots grown under increased CO2. The article can be found by clicking here. In the test plots, which were grown in open-top chambers containing up to 584 parts per million CO2 (compared to 400 ppm…
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Georgia FACES recently published a story which is based on a talk given by Carrie Furman and me to the annual meeting of Georgia Organics. You can find the link here. In the talk we discussed current trends in temperature, precipitation and other climate variables and their impact on crops, including an increase in the…
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There has been quite a bit of press on the impacts of climate on crops around the Southeast in the press lately. Here are some of the stories I’ve seen. 1. Heavy Rains Delaying Crop Planting—Growing Georgia–May 1 Heavy rains across the Southeast have caused a lot of problems for farmers trying to get fields…
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The latest National Climate Assessment report was released this morning, discussing the latest findings in climate change. Here is a direct link to the interactive section on agriculture: https://nca2014.globalchange.gov/report/sectors/agriculture. Time magazine reports that one of the conclusions of the report is that “Agriculture will be resilient… at first: Many farmers should actually be able to adapt…
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