Tools for climate and agriculture
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Today is a good day to remind folk that the Midwestern Regional Climate Center has a number of freeze map products available at their VIP site (Vegetation Impact Program). The site has national maps for a number of different parameters like median date of last spring frost (you choose 32 F or 28 F). Check…
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The US Environmental Protection Agency has a new publication available which describes some methods local communities can take to prepare for and adapt to changes in climate. A list of chapters in the publication is below. Chapter 2: Overcoming Barriers to Climate Adaptation discusses potential social and legal barriers. Chapter 3: Overall Strategies discusses smart…
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For those of you who are trying to find climate data and can’t get a hold of me, NOAA has put together a handy web page which tells you how you can search through their multitude of data sets to find what you need. You can read about the process and visit the starting page…
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Iowa State University has announced a new set of publications discussing the impacts of weather and climate on several specialty crops. The publications are listed collectively as “Climate and Weather: Specialty Crop Growers’ Views and Priorities to Manage Uncertainty in Production Systems.” While most these publications are aimed at folks from the Midwest, there is…
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I am holding a training meeting on Tuesday February 7 at 11 am EST on sources of weather and climate data for Extension agents. The meeting will focus on Georgia data sources but many of the sources are national or regional so others may find it helpful. It won’t be an exhaustive list but it…
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Alabama Extension now has a new website devoted to information about drought in the region as well as methods that farmers can use to deal with the impacts of drought on their livestock and crops. You can visit it at https://drought.aces.edu/.
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Because of this year’s warm weather throughout the winter months, the accumulated chill hours that we have seen this year are even lower than last year’s values, and is only about 50% of what we usually expect by this time of year. If we use previous years of weather data to project the range of…