Climate and Ag in the news
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The six to ten day outlook for temperatures in the US (from www.cpc.noaa.gov) shows a large area of much below normal temperatures in the Northern Plains, leading to some concerns about an early frost along the US-Canada border. If it happened, it would have the potential to drive corn prices up significantly. AgWeb published two…
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Bryan Norcross of The Weather Channel and Hurricane Andrew fame posted this excellent column on his Facebook page this morning. It was also published in Crain’s NewsPro magazine. An important discussion on hurricane cycles and the vulnerability of the coasts to tropical storms, related to some of the discussions we had at SRECA this…
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AgWeb recently published a story from NDSU Extension beef specialist Kris Ringwall on a couple of sources of information cattle producers can use to monitor drought and moisture conditions across the country. Kris points out that managing cattle is always a matter of flexibility as wet and dry spells come and go, but using graphics…
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Atlantic magazine had an interesting entry in their CityLab blog on temperature extremes in the US this week. The article pointed out that in most year, extremes of cold or warm dominate the country as a whole. However, this year there have been a nearly equal number of record hot and cold temperatures due…
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Weather Underground published a news story on September 1 showing that August 2014 had the lowest number of tornadoes for any August since 1963. This year only 27 tornadoes were confirmed across the US compared to an average of 81. In 1963 only 26 tornadoes were reported. However, small and weak tornadoes were reported much…
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This week the Southeast Regional Extension Climate Academy (SRECA) is meeting in Athens GA to talk about climate change and its impacts on the Southeast. Over 100 people, representing 11 different states, are gathered to discuss the science of changing climate (both natural and man-made changes) and how those changes affect crops, livestock, forests, and…
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While carbon dioxide emissions, especially from transportation and power production, produce most of the greenhouse emissions on Earth, emission of methane from livestock production and land use changes have been targeted by those interested in reduction of greenhouse gas emissions because methane is a much more potent greenhouse gas than CO2. Livestock produce methane naturally…
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