Drought
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The latest National Drought Monitor was released today and shows that due to the heavy rains that have fallen across most of the Southeast, most of the drought in Alabama and all of Georgia was eliminated, with just a small patch of moderate drought remaining in southeast Alabama. Some residual abnormally dry conditions remain but are…
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Sam Ingram of the Effingham County Extension News reports that last week’s dry weather was good enough for farmers in his county to plant corn. Because of the warm conditions and adequate moisture, the corn is really popping up. You can see some pictures and read his blog at https://site.extension.uga.edu/effingham/2015/04/corn-is-popping-up/ A bit farther afield, AgWeb reports…
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Eighty years ago yesterday, the most famous dust storm of the Dust Bowl Era occurred in Oklahoma and Texas. You’ve probably seen pictures of the tremendous wall of black soil picked up by the strong winds and blown for miles across the Great Plains. The sight of all this dirt carried by the wind prompted…
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One of the consequences of the continuing drought in California has been the unprecedented string of extremely high temperatures that have occurred in the last few years. Normally a portion of the sun’s energy that hits the earth goes to evaporating water from the surface, either from soils or water bodies or indirectly through evapotranspiration…
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Allison Floyd of Growing Georgia had an article this week discussing the increasing interest in Southern pecans due to the California drought. As we’ve discussed previously in this blog, California is one of the main sources of nuts in the US (and the world), but the nut orchards require a lot of water to maintain…
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Most of the stories I’ve published lately have dealt with the drought in California. And it’s no wonder, since California is the primary region for a lot of agriculture in the US. But other areas of the west are also suffering from the extended drought in the region. Here are a couple of stories about…
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The latest issue of the National Drought Monitor was released this morning. It shows that abnormally dry conditions and drought expanded slightly across the Southeast, especially in Florida, Alabama and Georgia. An area of moderate drought was reintroduced to southwestern Georgia and an area of severe drought was added to southeast Alabama. You can get…