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As we continue to see earth’s temperature increase, farmers are considering how to adapt to different growing conditions. Areas that are most favorable for some crops like corn and wheat are moving north, which gives northern farmers more options for crops and southern farmers the opportunity to try new crops or new varieties that are…
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Even though the Atlantic tropical season is over for this year, we are continuing to see impacts from this year’s storms coming in. We are also still seeing impacts from the wet conditions that have occurred across parts of the region this year. Here are three stories which describe some recent impacts of this summer’s…
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The warming of the global atmosphere over time is well known, although individual areas of the globe vary in what they are experiencing. Humidity is another variable that is changing, but in harder to discern ways. We know that as air temperature increases, it has the potential to hold more water vapor. But according to…
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If you keep up with the news, you can’t help but hearing about all the wildfires that have been raging through the western US this year. In particular, some of the fires have been moving through lands where California’s oldest trees, including sequoia, redwood, and Joshua trees, live. Many of these old trees have perished…
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Growing rice uses a lot of water because the traditional way of doing it requires ponds of water or rice paddies to grow the crop. Now Israeli scientists have developed a new way of growing rice with drip irrigation that is estimated to save 70 percent of the water used by traditional growing methods. Besides…
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Here is an excellent description of climate models and how they work, for those of you who get asked this or just have wondered yourself. It was published in 2018 in Carbon Brief and provides a detailed look at how climate models work, how accurate they are, and what shortcomings they have. You can read…
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If you farm or graze low-lying pastures, you may have special management challenges that other producers do not have. I thought this story from the Farm Press about one livestock producer and how he manages his herd of cows on river bottom fields was really interesting. To get the cattle to move from lo-lying ground…