The Clemson Extension agents have put out a very useful guide for things to do ahead of and after Hurricane Ian in the South Carolina Grower newsletter that folks in other areas affected by the storm may find useful. You can read it at https://scgrower.com/2022/09/28/hurricane-ian-preparation-considerations-for-fruit-and-vegetable-crops/.
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A few weeks ago, I wrote about how extension agents and agricultural producers in the Southeast can file reports on local conditions, including both droughts and floods. This hyper-local information is used by the weekly authors of the U. S. Drought Monitor to draw updated maps of drought conditions across…
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The USDA Southwest Climate Hub has produced a series of online courses on climate change and agriculture as well as the water cycle, wildfires, and other related topics that educators might be interested in viewing for potential use in classrooms or other teaching opportunities. You can look at an introductory…
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The very cold temperatures that occurred across the region were not that unexpected this time of year, which is usually the coldest period in winter. But because of the very warm December and warmer than normal January in Georgia and Florida, many crops developed much earlier than usual, leaving them…
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Here is a useful article for those of you who are home gardeners and are starting to think about planting fall crops. It’s from The Garden Professors blog, the other blog I contribute to. This one is written by John Porter of University of Nebraska Extension. He includes a map…
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With Fred and then Grace likely to affect farms in the Southeast this weekend and next week, there are plenty of things that you can do to get ready for the storms. In this case, both storms are lkely to feature plenty of rain along with some strong wind gusts…
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In The Garden Professors blog this week, John Porter of Nebraska Extension posts an article describing how water provides both necessary moisture and a contributor to diseases that can hurt plant growth, and in the worst cases, kill the plant completely. The article describes how water in the atmosphere contributes…
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