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The Georgia Department of Agriculture is in the process of finalizing relief payments to farmers in Georgia that were affected by Hurricane Michael in 2018 but who were not eligible to get payments through other USDA programs. If you are in one of the 95 counties…
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The National Weather Service’s Southeast River Forecast Center has a new outlook video available on YouTube. You can view it at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFZctPAgXnU&feature=youtu.be .
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Some recent articles have suggested that after being in ENSO-neutral conditions for quite a while now (albeit on the warm side of neutral), the eastern Pacific Ocean is headed towards a cooler pattern associated with the La Niña cold phase of the Southern Oscillation. If this does occur, we can expect a more active Atlantic…
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Over the past few weeks I have been introduced to several new web sites which provide graphical and/or map-based climate information that might be of use to you. I have not checked them out in detail yet, but wanted to let you know about them so that if you are interested you can see if…
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I was very encouraged to read about this new coalition of agriculture groups who want to engage with scientists in talking about climate change in Morning Ag Clips this week. I have learned a tremendous amount about agriculture from talking to extension agents and producers, but many climatologists don’t have that benefit, so it is…
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Farmers have the potential to lose a significant part of their livelihood in a weather disaster. But there are things that producers can do to prepare for the day a disaster like a flood from a slow-moving hurricane or damage from high winds hits their farm. This article from Nebraska Farmer describes two ways that…
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Even though it’s not quite the end of the month yet, the National Ag Statistics Service released this February summary of the crop conditions across Georgia. The rain has really done a number on farmers in most of the state this year. February 24, 2020 GEORGIA: February temperatures were on average 1 to 6 degrees…