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If you and your farm have been impacted by hurricanes in 2024, you may still be working on applying for disaster assistance. Fortunately, FEMA has extended the deadline for applying for assistance to February 7, 2025. You can find more information from WGXA here or directly from FEMA at https://www.fema.gov/press-release/20250108/georgians-have-one-month-left-apply-fema-assistance-deadline. Clint Thompson noted in Specialty…
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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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As we wave goodbye to the last winter storm that moved through our region yesterday and today, we are starting to look ahead to the next storm that is expected to form soon in the Gulf Coast and move towards us in the Southeast before curving up to the Mid-Atlantic. There is still a lot…
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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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The first big winter storm of the 2024-2025 winter is building in Oklahoma as I write this on Saturday night. This storm is expected to move west to east across the eastern half of the US over the next two days, bringing areas of freezing rain and snow to parts of the Mid-Atlantic and the…
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Rain across parts of the region led to an improvement in drought and abnormally dry conditions this week, with just two very small areas in Alabama and Georgia getting worse. Rain or wintry precipitation in the next week may lead to more improvements. If you are interested to see where the changes occurred, you can…
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