Crops
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In recent weeks there have been a lot of thunderstorms across the Southeast due to plentiful soil moisture and good triggering mechanisms for vertical development. Some of the storms have produced strong winds and large hail. I’ve seen a number of pictures of the hail that has fallen as well as some of the damage…
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The Southeast Farm Press noted this week that cotton production in Alabama has not gone well this year due to the variety of unusual weather they have experienced. It started with cool temperatures in April that halted planting for almost a month. May was hot and dry, which further delayed planting. Now they have a…
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The Georgia-Florida water wars have saturated the news here in the Southeast in recent weeks as folks waited for the US Supreme Court to decide on how water from the ACF basin would be distributed between Georgia and Florida (they sent it back to the special master, so no decision yet). But there are many…
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If you are an agricultural producer or an extension agent, chances are you spend a lot of time outside, especially during the growing season. You know what it’s like to work through extreme heat and humidity, and hopefully you have included time in your schedule to cool off and hydrate. For people who work outside…
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While conditions in the Southeast have been quite moderate compared to other parts of the United States, heat-related impacts are taking a toll in other parts of the globe. Here are a few stories in the past week. AgWeb reported that a heat wave in Europe is ruining the crops there. Many parts of Europe…
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When I lived in Wisconsin, we said in the summer when it was humid that all that water vapor was from the corn growing in Iowa. Earth.com posted a recent story which described an ongoing experiment to look at changes in clouds due to agricultural irrigation in the Great Plains. The field experiment is called…
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The Omaha World-Herald posted a story this week about how changes in climate, both in rising temperatures and changes in precipitation patterns, are changing agriculture in Nebraska and Iowa. While the amount of warming in the Southeast is not quite as large as in those states, most of the conclusions drawn in this story about…