Tools for climate and agriculture
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I spent the day down in Tifton attending the UGA Cotton Growers Workshop and Cotton Association meeting. Lots of good information and interesting people to talk to! I presented two sessions on the climate of 2014 and the outlook for 2015. I’ve posted my summary for 2014 on this blog already, but let me briefly…
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Winston Eason of Clayton County wrote me this morning asking about finding maps for average chill hours for a class he is teaching on backyard fruit trees and orchards. So far I have not been successful in finding a Georgia-specific map on average chill hours, but I did run across several other sources of information…
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I’m pleased to announce that there is a new web site for Georgia Climate available at https://www.gaclimate.org. When you visit, you will notice that this blog has a prominent place on the top of the home page. Inside the web site you will find a variety of information on Georgia climate and a number of…
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Farm Industry News published a very interesting panel discussion on the future of farming across the world in the face of changing climate, consumer demands, and other challenges. You can find it at https://farmindustrynews.com/precision-farming/future-farming. One of the themes that come up in the discussion over and over again is the important of water availability and…
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A new tool from the University of Arizona Climate Science Applications Program displays standardized precipitation index (SPI)values for a range of time scales over time. SPI is a calculated rainfall amount that takes into account the average rainfall and the standard deviation of rainfall over time and puts it in a standard format which can…
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The National Weather Service has a new experimental product that can show you the weather along your trip route. The NWS Enhanced Data Display provides the ability to look at weather in layers of temperature, precipitation, wind etc in an interactive map-based format. To get the travel weather, go to the main page at https://preview.weather.gov/edd/ and look…
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A new resource guide has recently been made available by the Animal Agriculture Climate Change group that co-sponsors this blog. It is entitled “Adapting to a Changing Climate: A Planning Guide.” It is available online by clicking here. This guide provides several steps that extension agents, farmers and ranchers can use to think about how…