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Severe drought causes significant impacts for farmers across the world. Here is a story from Yahoo News on the lengthy drought in Turkey and how desperate farmers overusing irrigation are causing sinkholes to develop in their fields as they remove the groundwater. Not so different than the overuse of groundwater in California except that in…
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Here’s an interesting story about freeze protection of apples in Italy. While I know that Southeastern farmers use irrigation to protect blueberries from freezing conditions, this is the first time that I have read about Italian farmers using the same method to protect their apples. The system they use is a little different in that…
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The latest 7-day QPF map shows that this weekend looks nice and dry across most of the region. By Sunday night rain will start to enter from the west. Alabama will experience the heaviest rains Monday and Tuesday, with several inches in some areas. The week should end with mostly dry conditions across the area.…
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Another question that has come up a lot this week is how the heavy rain from last weekend affected the soil fertility in the areas that got the most rain. Here is an excellent article that describes some of the considerations you should use if your area experiences flooding rain on spring crops from the…
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Reports of damage from the storms of Saturday, April 24, are continuing to come in. In addition to the very heavy rain across the area, numerous reports of damaging hail and strong winds were reported in southern AL and GA and in northern FL, leading to crop damage and outright losses there. I have received…
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One of the projects that Dr. George Vellidis (UGA-Tifton) and I are working on over the next few years was featured this week in the NOAA Weather Program Office newsletter at https://wpo.noaa.gov/Resources/Newsletters. The Project Outcomes will: Assess the viability of low-cost soil moisture sensors via test-bed calibration (AL, GA), expand the egional soil moisture network…
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