Crops
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As you know from previous posts, El Niño can cause a variety of climate anomalies across the globe. A story today from AgWeb highlights the hot conditions in Brazil in recent weeks and its impacts on Brazil’s corn crop, which is often planted as a second crop behind soybeans. In the map below of global El…
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Growing Georgia reprinted a press release from AgPR today which has a good discussion about how the weather conditions associated with El Niño and La Niña affect nitrogen availability in the soil. While it’s commercial in nature, the post contains useful information for those who are planning nitrogen applications and budgeting for coming years. You…
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The latest newsletter from the Southeast Climate Consortium is now available. It contains information about scientists working on climate and ag-related issues in the Southeast and a review of the 13th meeting of the Tri-State Climate Learning Network for Row Crop Agriculture, which was held on March 14 in Headland, AL. You can read it…
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CLN Webinar: Climate Change and Insects in Wheat Systems April 14th, 2016 at 2:00pm EDT The Climate Learning Network presents a webinar featuring Dr. Sanford Eigenbrode, Principal Investigator of the USDA sponsored Regional Approaches to Climate Change – Pacific Northwest Agriculture (REACCH) Coordinated Agricultural Project. Dr. Eigenbrode will present new discoveries and adaptation techniques for…
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Following the devastating tsunami which hit northern Japan in 2011 following a massive earthquake, a large area of land was covered by salt water, which deposited the salt behind, making it difficult for anything to grow. Scientists identified varieties of rice which were more tolerant of the salty soil and used those to develop a…
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Another outbreak of chilly air is moving into the Southeast this weekend, and it could bring temperatures near or below freezing to northern and higher elevation areas of Georgia and North and South Carolina on Saturday and Sunday mornings. The National Weather Service has issued frost and freeze warnings for Thursday night into Friday morning for…
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Yale Climate Connections posted a story this week about the tough decisions that Southern California farmers are having to make after another winter with low rainfalls. One farmer says that she had to cut 100 acres of vegetables last year (out of 350 total) and another 100 this year due to lack of water. She…