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I received an email today from USDA announcing two informational webinars on the hurricane wind insurance program that has been the bane of many producers’ existence this year. I like to think that maybe I had a little to do with getting them to do this, although I don’t know that for sure. Here is…
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Now that the big winter storm has passed, most of the region should see drier and quieter conditions for the next week, although it will still be colder than average for the rest of the month. Another Gulf low will bring rain to southern Alabama, western FL, and SW Georgia in the next few days.…
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One of the consequences of the warming climate is that the growing season is getting longer. This provides producers with the opportunity to try to get two crops from a field in a season instead of just one. Of course, some farmers are already doing this to improve their income, but this may become more…
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While most of the region has already experienced a killing freeze this year, areas in the southern part of the region have not and are very vulnerable to the cold air that is streaming south into Florida. UF/IFAS posted a rerun of a very useful blog post describing the different kinds of freezes that occur…
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Most of you already know about losses to agriculture from the hurricanes and tropical storms that have crossed our region this year, including Debby, Helene, and Milton, but you might not realize that we also had losses from severe weather in the Southeast as well as other parts of the country. You can read more…
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While a lot of the statistics for the 2024 climate are still being compiled and quality-controlled, we can take a quick look at the preliminary yearly statistics using the High Plains Regional Climate Center’s online maps at https://hprcc.unl.edu/maps.php?maps=ACISClimateMaps. They show that overall the Southeast was generally 1-2 degrees warmer than normal, with the highest deviations…
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The latest Drought Monitor, released today, indicates that dry conditions expanded over a lot of the Florida Peninsula as well as in some locations in South Carolina due to a lack of rain this week. By comparison, a large area in Alabama and smaller areas in northern Georgia and central Tennessee improved due to the…
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