Climate and Ag in the news
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The Lubbock Avalanche-Journal reported that pork prices are being impacted by drought-induced feed increases as well as a fatal disease for piglets. In the story, they note that up to 75 percent of the cost of a hog operation. Soybeans and corn, favored feed for swine, are grown in largest quantities in the Midwest and…
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NOAA issued its official forecast for the Atlantic hurricane season this morning. The number of storms is predicted to be less than normal, due mainly to the expected onset of El Nino later this summer, which usually tends to suppress hurricane activity. However, even one storm can have significant consequences if it makes landfall in…
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A new blog on El Nino-Southern Oscillation (better known as ENSO) is now available from NOAA at https://www.climate.gov/news-features/department/8443/all. This blog will provide background information and current discussion about the status of El Nino and La Nina as well as descriptions of its impact across the United States and the world. ENSO has big impacts on…
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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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