The USDA has published a new comprehensive resource book on practices that agricultural producers can use to adapt to variability and trends in climate. While the material is aimed at the Midwest and Northeast, there is a lot of information here that would also be useful to Southeastern farmers and…
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USGS has a useful set of maps depicting the number of dry days or wet days in a row counting back from the current date. You can find them at http://earlywarning.usgs.gov/usraindry. Check out the map below showing the number of days since it has rained! Hat tip to Scott Doering, my…
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If you’ve ever been asked about how often a certain weather type occurs on a holiday like Christmas, you will love this new feature in the cli-MATE database from the Midwestern Regional Climate center. They now allow you to choose from one of 19 different holidays, including those pesky ones…
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All eyes among my meteorologist friends as well as many others are on the tropics as Hurricane Matthew moves north through the Bahamas today headed towards the Southeast. If you live within 100 miles of the coast, I hope you have made preparations for the storm, which is likely to…
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Merck Animal Health has announced that a new app that calculates the footprint of beef production. This app is designed for producers, suppliers and others in the food chain to estimate the economic impacts of their production on the environment. It includes personalization by number of cattle and production method…
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There will be a workshop on Weather and Climate Decision Tools for Farmers, Ranchers and Land Managers on December 5-7, 2016 down in Gainesville FL. The registration for the workshop is $75 but is waived if you register by September 30. That’s today! You can read more about it and…
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Here are a list of a few online and in-person courses that I have seen listed in recent weeks. The Warnell School of Forestry at UGA is offering an in-person course on “Managing Forest Health, Wildlife and Productivity” on October 4-5 in Athens, GA. Course content will center on landscape-scale…
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