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One of the newer crops that is getting a lot of attention in Georgia is citrus. I’ve worked with several farmers who are looking into satsumas and other cold-hardy varieties to see how well they can do in our state. I was happy to hear from one of my farmers down near Bainbridge in SW…
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The latest Drought Monitor, released today, shows that the area of moderate drought that was recently introduced to Florida has expanded along the East Coast and now covers almost 10% of the state. Drought in Georgia and South Carolina receded slightly or stayed constant. Seasonal rain in the next week should keep the drought from…
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The USDA’s Southeast Regional Climate Hub is in the process of developing a manual that will help land owners deal with preparations for and recovery from hurricanes. The manual will be based on input from a recent workshop that I attended last week in Gainesville FL and will feature checklists and lists of resources that…
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The latest global monthly climate summary for the globe was released by NOAA today. It shows that October 2018 was the second warmest since records began in 1880, following the record warm year of 2015 when a strong El Niño was occurring. Note that in the Southeast, the Florida peninsula was record warm for October.…
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Brad Haire published a second in a series of stories about how Florida and Georgia farmers are coping with the aftereffects of Hurricane Michael. This story, from Southeast Farm Press, tells about the impacts on one peanut worker and has a set of slides which show the devastation of the storm. You can read it…
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It’s been a tumultuous year for tropical storms in the Southeast, with three hurricanes (Gordon, Florence and Michael) hitting parts of the region this fall. But the hurricane season doesn’t officially end until the end of November, so there is at least the potential for another storm to develop (although we see nothing on the…
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A recent study of daily rainfall amounts throughout the year published in Geophysical Research Letters shows that for a large part of the world, half of the annual rainfall occurs on just 12 days during the year, with the rest of the rain falling on days with smaller amounts (based on 1999 to 2014). This…