Crops
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Here are a couple of recent newsletters from organizations I work with that you might find interesting. Carolinas Climate Connection Southern Regional Extension Forestry Stripling Irrigation Research Park
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AgWeb posted an article from the Associated Press this past week describing just some of the heartbreaking losses that Puerto Rican farmers are experiencing from Hurricane Maria. Impacts are both from the storm itself and from the aftermath with the continuing loss of power, which is a major problem for the significant dairy industry on the…
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Vegetable Growers News reported this week that many vegetable growers in Florida were not insured and will face significant losses from Hurricane Irma, including plants that were already in the ground as well as plastic sheeting used to prepare strawberry fields for the upcoming season. USDA reported in a study earlier this year that only…
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The Weather Channel posted a set of photos taken of farm destruction from Hurricanes Harvey in Texas and Irma in Florida and the Southeast. Not many photos have made it out of Puerto Rico yet but the few I have seen show almost total devastation of the crops there from Hurricane Maria, along with the…
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Here are a couple of new video series that you might enjoy watching related to climate and agriculture. The first is ABC News Food Forecast featuring Ginger Zee from Good Morning America (a former student of my husband) about how weather and climate impacts our food. You can see the list of videos at https://abc.go.com/shows/food-forecast/episode-guide.…
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Hurricanes Harvey and Irma did quite a bit of damage to cotton in the South. According to Growing Georgia here, cotton growers in Georgia sustained at least $100 million in damage from Irma, resulting in at least a 10 percent loss due to the storm, although amounts could go higher once the final tallies are…
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The Southeast Farm Press posted a story this week about the expansion of Brassica carinata, an inedible seed whose oil can be turned into jet fuel as a crop in the Southeast. USDA has awarded a $15 million grant to researchers at the University of Florida to study how this crop can be commercialized to…