Tools for climate and agriculture
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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…
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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…