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Dairy cattle put off a lot of heat as they digest their food and produce milk, and in warm conditions, that can put them under stress. A new study in California that was published recently in Inside Climate News showed that a combination of fans and sprinkling that were run by decision-making tools to calculate…
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The Southeast Farm Press published a story this week about the impacts of all the rain on cotton in North Carolina this year. North Carolina State University agronomist Guy Collins noted in the story that 2020 was the worst planting season he can remember, with almost continuously cool and wet weather during planting season, which…
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Morning Ag Clips posted an interesting story this week about a new alliance of farmers, forest owners, the food sector, state governments and environmental advocates, who unveiled a set of recommendations to guide the development of federal climate policy. According to the story, the group developed more than 40 recommendations based on three principles: agricultural…
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The latest 7-day QPF map shows that very little rain is expected this week, mostly on Sunday and Monday. After that, the week looks dry for everywhere but southern Florida. Normal rainfall is expected for week two before drier conditions return for the end of the month. With this little rain in the forecast, abnormally…
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In this busy hurricane season, it has been hard to keep track of all the land-falling storms, especially those outside of the Southeast. But two of the most devastating came onshore only a few miles apart, and each caused tremendous damage through winds, flooding rain, and landslides. The two storms, Eta and Iota, have caused…
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The latest monthly climate summary for North Carolina is now available from the NC Climate Office. You can read it at https://climate.ncsu.edu/climateblog?id=329&h=5666e5c1.
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If you drive through southeast Alabama or southwest Georgia, you can still see plenty of damage from Hurricane Michael, which hit there in 2018. Researchers with Auburn University’s School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences are currently working on a “Downed Timber Initiative,” which aims to develop new methods of using fallen trees and branches decimated…