Crops
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The Packer published an article this week saying that strawberries from Florida were running about a week behind normal. They attributed it to cooler than normal evening temperatures early in the season. This is expected to result in a decrease in volumes for the next couple of weeks due to slower blooms. You can read…
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There have been several recent news articles discussing the effect of bad weather and climate conditions on crops. Here are a couple of the more interesting ones. AgWeb published an article today discussing the poor barley crop that has been produced this year. Much of the crop has been moved to the western US due…
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Many of you will be traveling sometime during the next week to visit friends or relatives over Christmas week. Looks like there will be a good bit of storminess this week over the eastern half of the country as well as a big storm hitting the Pacific Northwest. Pay special attention if you are flying,…
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Clint Thompson of UGA published an article this week in Growing Georgia which notes the unusually large losses in tobacco this year due to black shank disease. He said that losses were between 4 and 5 percent of the state’s 12,000-plus tobacco acres. The heaviest losses were in Coffee and Berrien counties, Georgia’s top tobacco-producing…
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There are climate stories in the news almost every day. Here are three that I thought were especially interesting this week. Men’s Journal provided a balanced discussion of GMOs and their place in agriculture. I’m not going to discuss the GMO controversy (other than to note that this is a topic that, like vaccination and…
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Brad Haire posted a story this week in the Southeast Farm Press on the 2014 pecan harvest. You can read the story at https://southeastfarmpress.com/orchard-crops/georgia-s-2014-pecans-smaller-nuts-bigger-price-growing-market The story highlights the impacts of the tough summer weather on the nuts, although it says the weather also helped. Low volumes were related to poor pollination conditions in the spring,…
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The State Climate Office of North Carolina published a blog entry today describing some work their student interns have done to look at the impact of weather and climate on pumpkin production. They found differences in the plantings dates between eastern and western NC and impacts of growing degree days on insect pest growth. You…
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