Tools for climate and agriculture
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Now that the grant for “Animal Agriculture in a Changing Climate” is ending, the course materials, including the original video modules and reference material, have been moved to the eXtension site for at least the next year. While the course is no longer offered, all of the materials can still be used for self-study. Many […]
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The University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences announced the development of a new app-based tool to help tell farmers when severe weather might impact their crops. According to an article in the Southeast Farm Press, the tool will inform farmers about the potential for extreme weather such as severe heat or dry spells […]
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Here’s a website which lists sources of information on weather and climate in the National Weather Service’s Southern Region. It includes a number of decision support tools, data sets, and other information for areas from New Mexico through Georgia and Florida. You can see it at https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/rcsd/southern. If you are in the Carolinas, you can replace […]
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Do you like to watch time lapse photography? Here is a really great resource showing land use changes across the world. Google and Time magazine have teamed up together to show a three-decade time lapse of the entire Earth. You can zoom to areas of interest or check out the editors’ choices of some of […]
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The US Forest Service has a useful web site that serves as a resource center for topics on climate change and how it is likely to affect forests and grasslands in years to come. The site includes a number of modules on climate science, impacts of changing climate, and how land managers can respond. You […]
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The National Weather Service noted that new experimental snowfall maps will be available this year for a number of stations across the US, including several in the Southeast. The new maps will show ranges of potential snowfall as well as probabilities of different amounts. That could provide some very useful additional information to what is […]
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There is a great new resource available for free describing the relationships between climate and crops. It is an iBook recently produced by the Alabama Cooperative Extension System at Auburn University. Here are some comments about it from their press release: Dr. John Beasley, head of Auburn University’s Department of Crop, Soil and Environmental Sciences, […]