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Heavy snow in Michigan and other northern states slowed the delivery of Christmas trees in the past two weeks, according to Associated Press. An article today (link) noted that in some loading yards, stacks of trees awaiting shipment were covered by up to two feet of snow. The snow also covered roads and delayed transportation.…
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AL.com published a story two days ago describing the problems poultry farmers had last winter with poor availability of propane. This is the fuel of choice for many poultry farmers for heating their poultry houses, which are sometimes as long as two football fields in length. This resulted in particularly high costs last year, since…
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November 30 marks the end of the official hurricane season in the North Atlantic Ocean. NOAA’s National Hurricane Center released their summary of the season this week, discussing the relatively weak season and how well it was predicted. The lack of tropical storms over the Southeast contributed to the development of dry conditions and severe…
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When I was a small girl, my dad took me fishing for bass and bluegill up in my home state of Michigan. I still hold the family record for the most fish caught with the same worm (14!). I don’t do much fishing now, but I have friends who love to fish for trout. If…
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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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Dr. Lenny Wells, UGA Scientist, gives us a harvest update (thanks to Rome Ethredge for posting this on his blog first): “Early estimates placed the 2014 Georgia Pecan crop at 80-90 million lbs. But, as pecan producers have been gathering their crop, it has been obvious that the lbs making it into the wagons are not what they appeared to be on the…
Posted in: Crops