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Changing climate is bringing more heat waves, droughts and flooding rains to the US. Farmers are on the front lines of dealing with this increasingly erratic weather and are trying to find new ways to adapt to the changing conditions by using their land management skills to their advantage to produce crops. Here are a…
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You’ve probably read here or elsewhere about the terrible fires that have been sweeping through parts of Australia recently. The fires have reported killed over one billion animals such as kangaroos and koalas, and I have read awful stories about farmers having to kill their cattle severely injured by the intense fires. Here is an…
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According to The Packer, “Growing organic strawberries has never been easy for Florida farmers, but the task got a lot more challenging in late December, when a fungus called Pestalotiopsis took hold in some of the state’s berry fields.” Their article from earlier this week noted that the growth of the fungus exploded during Christmas…
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The latest 7 day QPF map shows that most areas of the Southeast will get about an inch of rain this week, with higher amounts in northern Alabama and the mountainous regions and off the coast, and lighter amounts in southern Florida and along the North Carolina and Virginia coasts. The first rain even will…
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The folks from NIDIS (National Integrated Drought Information Systems) have provided a nice summary of the 2019 year in review in ten maps related to drought across the US. We had our share in the Southeast, but it was dwarfed by the exceptional drought in the Four Corners region of the Desert Southwest. Note that…
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If you live in an area affected in 2018 by Hurricane Michael and have trees, you may be interested in attending the 2020 annual meeting of the Southeastern Society of American Foresters (SESAF) in Panama City Beach, FL on February 23-25. The theme of their meeting this year is “Recovery From the Storm – Where…
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The latest preliminary monthly climate outlook for February 2020 was released today. It shows that unlike most of the previous few months, most of the region is now in equal chances of near, below or above normal temperatures. This is a change from the lean towards warmer than normal temperatures we have seen in most…
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