Extension agent outreach
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When I drove to Birmingham this past weekend, I noticed a lot of damage to trees along the interstate, especially in the areas that got the most snow in our recent event. What do you need to do to take care of the trees and bushes that were damaged by the snow? Paul Pugliese has…
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If you’ve been following the drought posts on this blog, you know that moderate drought is expanding across the Southeast. But sometimes the map doesn’t capture the full picture of what is going on in the ground because no one is there to report it. The Drought Monitor authors would love to have more information…
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Bob Kemerait, Extension specialist at UGA, posted an interesting discussion looking back on the 2017 growing season and its challenges and what impacts weather and other factors had on crop yields. You can read it in the Southeast Farm Press here. Dan Fromme from Louisiana posted a similar discussion on cotton yields there in AgWeb…
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The USDA’s Southwest Regional Climate Hub has a new online curriculum on agriculture and climate change available for K-12 educators and students. I haven’t had a chance to look at it yet, but even though it was written for the Southwest, I’m sure it contains information that would be valuable to the Southeast as well.…
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Paul Pugliese of the University of Georgia talks about tree damage from Hurricane Irma that occurred across Georgia earlier this week. He describes the types of damage that were seen, including branch breakage and wind throw and uprooting of entire trees. He also includes a section on how you can protect yourself and your property…
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NOTE: This was written specifically for extension agents in Georgia but the information is generally true for the entire Southeast. Meteorologists and storm-watchers have been watching the progress of Hurricane Irma for the last week as it moved from off the west coast of Africa to its present position east of Puerto Rico and the…
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As part of my new funding from the Southeast Regional Climate Hub, I am looking for projects that relate weather and climate variability to the production and management of crops grown in the Southeast. That could range from grains to fruit to forage and could include both larger commodity crops like corn and specialty crops…