The rain that has fallen in the last couple of weeks in California has been a mixed blessing for farmers there. While the rain has reduced drought levels and provided snow pack for irrigation later this year, it has also caused a lot of damage to farm fields and crops….
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While the Christmas freeze is well in the past for most of us, some forage producers are still seeing the impacts affecting their fields. Here is some advice from UF/IFAS on what happened and what to do if your forage was severely impacted by the frigid weather: Impacts of the…
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According to a recent article by Heather Kolich, ANR agent in Georgia’s Forsyth County, “With an October freeze followed by a relatively balmy December capped with several consecutive days of subfreezing temperatures, Georgia weather has experienced a few unexpected weather events from autumn into winter. Temperatures at both ends of…
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While a lot of the hype on social media this week (at least among meteorologists) has been the potential for snow somewhere in the Southeast or on the East Coast, the bigger story for most of us is going to be the coming cold weather, according to James Spann, well-known…
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The Southeast Farm Press published an excellent review of cotton production across the United States earlier this week. The story highlights how important the weather and climate are to the yields producers got across the country. Sometimes just a few inches of rain is the difference between an excellent crop…
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The string of weather-related disasters that has hit the United States this year has caused a lot of problems for farmers across the country, leading to big decreases in the yield of citrus and rice as well as the culling of cattle due to drought. Here are a couple of…
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In this blog I often write about the damage caused by tropical storm such as Irma, Michael, and Ian. But I don’t often see stories about how the affected farmers are recovering from their losses. Here is a Southeast Farm Press story about the Bahamas that makes me feel very…
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