ABC News posted an interesting story this week about how changes in climate in the Midwest are affecting corn producers. The story discusses the warming trend in climate there and how planting corn earlier in the year allows it to get through pollination before the temperature gets really hot, leading…
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While driving home from a winter weather conference today, I heard a conservative radio host say that humans could not possibly change the climate because it is too big to be affected by us. Of course, this is silly because humans have been changing their local climates for a long…
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An article this week in AgWeb nicely summarizes the findings of the recent National Climate Assessment report on agriculture. According to the article, the National Climate Assessment (NCA) predicts agriculture will be one of the greatest casualties when it comes to climate change. “Any change in the climate poses a…
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A short course on row crop agriculture will be taught by Alabama Extension folk on December 13 and 14 in Auburn AL. You can get CEUs and Pesticide credits for attending. Hotel rooms must be reserved by November 30. You can read more at https://news.aces.edu/blog/2018/11/12/alabama-row-crops-short-course-set-for-dec-13-14/, where you will also find a…
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Brad Haire published a second in a series of stories about how Florida and Georgia farmers are coping with the aftereffects of Hurricane Michael. This story, from Southeast Farm Press, tells about the impacts on one peanut worker and has a set of slides which show the devastation of the…
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If you are interested in stories about how farmers in the path of Hurricane Michael have been coping with all of the damage, you will appreciate this story by Brad Haire in the Southeast Farm Press on one farmer’s experience. Check it out here. Sounds like this is the first…
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Sharon Dowdy of UGA’s College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences has an interesting story this week about how farmers and extension agents in southwest Georgia are coping after the devastating effect of Hurricane Michael earlier this month. Lots of good stories about what happened to farmers around the area and…
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