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It is approaching the end of the month, and most of Georgia except for the counties along the northern border and a patch in SW Georgia have experienced below normal rainfall, even in a month that is usually the driest month of the year. Parts of east central Georgia have only received between 10 and…
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The Southeast Cattle Advisor recently published a newsletter article describing the economic benefits of grazing cool season annual forages as a way to reduce the costs of feeding. You can read the article here. They show that providing cool season annual forage can be a cost-effective way to reduce winter feeding costs for cattle, depending…
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NBC News reported that a new study to be published shortly in Geophysical Research Letters shows that the drought which covered much of the US in 1934 was the worst in 1000 years, based on tree ring records from across the country from 1000 to 2005 as well as modern climate observations. The atmospheric pattern…
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The 7-day QPF map shows that most of the Southeast is expected to get less than a quarter inch of rain in the next week. Most of that will fall during a cold front passage Tuesday night to Thursday afternoon. Other than the scattered showers associated with the front, conditions should be mostly dry. Ahead…
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A couple of recent publications have noted that the ranges of fish and ragweed are expanding to the north under the influence of warming temperatures on land and in the ocean. CBC News reported on a recent study that tracked the ranges of 802 commercially exploited fish species and noted that ” the fish are…
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The Packer printed a story on October 16 describing negative impacts of heavy rain in Florida on fresh tomato availability, in a story available here. Volumes will be down for a few weeks due to losses in Florida and in Baja California, where hurricane-related storms followed by heat and more rain knocked down plantings and…
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The Packer noted earlier this week that Chile has suffered some unseasonably cold weather, which has caused damage to blueberries as well as potentially to their other crops of apples, kiwifruit and cherries. However, the extent of the damage is uncertain, since reports have come in from only a few growers so far. The Packer…