Weather conditions that are getting warmer, more variable and more extreme are causing farmers to think about new ways to farm. One way is to move cultivation indoors where light, rainfall, and other factors can be controlled and production can occur all year. E&E News posted an interesting story about…
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While a lot of the Southeast has been quite dry in the last few weeks, North Carolina has been fighting wet conditions. This has caused problems for wheat farmers, who are seeing problems with pests like mites and fusarium wilt. Farmers there will need to monitor their crops carefully so…
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Growing Georgia posted a story today about estimates of damage due to the Midwestern storms earlier this spring. The estimates from Accuweather, which include a variety of different impacts from both the blizzard and extensive flooding, estimate that damages may be as much as $12.5 billion. And with another strong…
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The Southeast Farm Press has a short slide show, presented by UGA’s Eric Prostko, which describes all of the different ways that herbicide can disappear from your crops. Many of them are related to the weather, either rainfall or sunshine. You can view it here.
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While it’s a clear and sunny day here in the Southeast, farmers in the Midwest are still struggling with the impacts of the catastrophic flooding that hit in March. Some of them may never return to farming after seeing their herds, barns and houses washed away and their fields buried…
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The Cahokia Mounds outside St. Louis are the remains of one of North America’s largest indigenous population. Many archaeologists estimate that at its peak around the year 1100, Cahokia housed 10,000 to 20,000 people, with up to 50,000 inhabitants living in the surrounding area—a population size rivalling or surpassing concurrent…
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No one doubts that small farmers in the US are facing an unprecedented attack from many sides, including tariffs, international competition, overproduction and low commodity costs. The New Republic published an article this week discussing the role of weather and changing climate in putting stress on small farmers by increasing…
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