Crops
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I took a little time off this week to celebrate my husband John Knox’s award for excellence in teaching in the University System of Georgia as a recipient of the Felton Jenkins, Jr. Hall of Fame Faculty Awards, one of the highest awards in the state of Georgia for his work in university teaching. He…
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Fall armyworms are plaguing pastures and hayfields in many areas of the Southeast. This year they have been particularly bad, and I have pictures of significant damage to peanuts and lawns, which are not always affected. In Georgia armyworms have been observed in most counties except near the coasts, in the mountains, and in metro…
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The internet has been full of stories on agriculture and climate this week in addition to all of the stories about Tropical Storm Debby as it has developed over time. Here are a few that caught my eye. American Agriculturalist: Loss of animals hits hard (Vermont flooding impacts on poultry farm) Ambrook: Salting the earth…
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This year’s growing season in south Georgia has been a mix of very wet and very dry conditions. The growing season started wet, which led to delays in planting in some fields. Then June was quite dry across most of the state, causing problems with pollination in dryland corn and impacts on other crops as…
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Even though it’s been dry in the Southeast, other parts of the country are experiencing extensive flooding that is causing significant damage to crops. AgWeb posted a story a few days ago describing the potential loss of up to one million acres due to flooding along the Missouri, Mississippi and other rivers in the Midwest.…
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The importance of bees and other pollinators on food production cannot be understated, since without pollinators most plants could not produce food and seeds for future plants. Here are two recent stories I read that discuss two different aspects of how the changing climate is affecting pollinators. The first story, from Morning Ag Clips, reviews…
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The dry conditions that have grown across a lot of the Southeast in the past few weeks have put a lot of stress on many crops, but probably none more so than corn. As I have driven across Georgia in the past couple of weeks, I have seen a lot of dryland corn fields looking…