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Farmers are masters of managing risk. They have to deal with variable weather, swings in the market, labor issues and many other factors on a daily basis. A new report on fighting global warming released today explains that making choices to manage the risks of climate change is like insuring your property and crops from…
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The USDA has a nice website for daily forecasts for cattle heat stress at https://www.ars.usda.gov/plains-area/clay-center-ne/marc/docs/heat-stress/main/. If you click on your regional link you get a day by day forecast of heat stress for the next seven days. You can also find out more information on the AnimalAgClimateChange website here.
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If you missed the live webcast of WeatherBrains yesterday on this blog as well as other information about ongoing weather and climate stories across the country, you can listen to it at https://weatherbrains.com/weatherbrains/. It’s episode 444.
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Rome Ethredge posted a blog entry on the increase in spider mites in peanut fields in some parts of the state. He noted that they are most likely to be seen in dryland fields. You can read his blog entry and see some pictures at https://seminolecropnews.wordpress.com/2014/07/29/spider-mites-in-peanuts/.
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Bloomberg News reported on July 25 that kudzu, the bane of the South, is now moving farther and farther north as the temperature increases. In addition to covering much of Georgia, Alabama and North Carolina (including a few areas of my yard that need some work), it has now been found in Illinois, Ohio and…
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A cold front which is moving through the lower Southeast is expected to slow down or stall over Florida, bringing rain to much of the peninsula as well as along the East Coast over the next week. Rainfall amounts in central Florida could reach 2.5 to 3 inches, with even higher amounts off the coast.…
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I will be participating in the netcast for WeatherBrains tonight, Monday July 28, to discuss this blog and the general topic of climate and agriculture. This live webcast, which is also archived as a podcast, is hosted by Dr. James Spann, a famous broadcast meteorologist from Birmingham AL, along with several other meteorologists, and is…