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Irma hit the Florida peninsula almost ten months ago, causing heavy damage to many farms in the region. Producers are slowly recovering from the impacts of the winds and flood, but dairy farmers have been slow to benefit because of a clause in the recovery legislation which barred dairy farmers…
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NASA’s new GRACE satellite can provide a snapshot look at soil moisture conditions across the entire US. The maps come out one a week at http://nasagrace.unl.edu/. This week’s map shows a streak of wet conditions stretching from Alabama north to Ohio, but dry conditions in southeast Georgia and north into most…
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In recent weeks I have not heard much about drought in the Southeast (and no wonder, considering how wet we have been), but in past droughts I got a lot of questions about our drought status as depicted in the Drought Monitor. Here’s an interesting story about how the Drought…
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If you are interested in what is going on in weather and climate around the world, you should check out Climate.gov‘s Event Tracker page at https://www.climate.gov/news-features/event-tracker/all. It shows some of the fascinating weather extremes that are happening around the world in a clickable map format that allows you to choose your…
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National Geographic posted an interesting story today on changes in climate that were observed by looking at video footage of a famous Belgian bicycle race that has been held every April since 1929. In looking at the footage of the race, scientists noticed that in the early years of the…
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With all of the rain we have been having across the Southeast, ponding in some fields has been a big issue. This video from the Farm Bureau on what things you need to consider after ponding occurs may be useful to you. You can view it at https://www.agweb.com/article/fjctv-managing-environmental-challenges-post-ponding/.
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The latest monthly summary of climate for the United States was released this morning by NOAA. It shows that for the US, the average June temperature was 3.0 degrees above the 20th century average. That makes it the third warmest since records began in 1895, after 1933 and 2016. For…
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