Tools for climate and agriculture
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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 and provides suggestions for improvement…
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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 sign up at https://conference.ifas.ufl.edu/decision_tools/index.html. Abstracts are…
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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 forest health issues related to…
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Today marks the 43rd day in a row of high temperatures in Athens GA that were at or above 90 F. This ties us with the all-time record set in 2011, based on records going back to about 1903 combined from the city and airport data. Will we break the record tomorrow? It will be…
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Last night was a doozy for those of us living right in Athens, GA. From about 9:30 pm to just shy of 11:30 pm, the airport received 4.96 inches of rain. Strong thunderstorm cells rained continuously over the area with only minor movement over the 2-hour period. I live about a mile south of the…
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I am happy to announce the birth of a new website for the University of Georgia automated weather station network. You can still find the main portal at https://www.georgiaweather.net/, although that may change in the future. The website has a fresh new look and more readily available information. I encourage you to visit them and see…
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Growing Georgia reprinted a story by Merritt Melancon of UGA on the recent string of very hot days here in Athens and other parts of Georgia yesterday. You can read it here. Another story about the hot weather appeared this morning in OnlineAthens.com here. Both of them use information I provided from a number of…