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While Hurricane Florence has grabbed the bulk of the news about damage to agriculture in the Southeast, Tropical Storm Gordon also caused some major problems for growers in the Panhandle of Florida and southern Alabama. Gordon came through early in September and hit that area right when cotton and peanuts were starting to be harvested.…
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With all of the news about agricultural impacts from Gordon and Florence this year, extension agents and agricultural producers will surely be interested in this upcoming workshop on improving resilience on farms to extreme events like hurricanes. The workshop will be held in Gainesville FL on November 15. The workshop organizers are looking for your…
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As in Georgia, growers in Florida are exploring the potential for growing olives as a new specialty crop. There are already some groves planted and producing olives but this could expand in the future. WCJB has a video story about how production in the Southeast differs from production in California and other drier locations here.…
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A preliminary estimate of agricultural losses in North Carolina due to Hurricane Florence was published today in the Southeast Farm Press as $1.1 billion based on acreage affected and the 5-year average of crop yields. By far the highest loss was due to row crops, which were near harvest and in many cases were complete…
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Do you think the humidity has been high this year? We certainly see the impacts of high dewpoint temperatures in night-time lows, which have been much above normal this summer. Dennis Mercereau of DAMWeather has done an interesting analysis of humidity conditions in the Eastern US this year and discovered that this has been an…
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The latest Drought Monitor, released this morning, shows that a small area of moderate drought has been introduced to the southern tip of South Carolina, which largely missed the rain from Hurricane Florence. Moderate drought and abnormally dry conditions expanded in central Georgia. Moderate drought decreased slightly in Alabama but the area of abnormally dry…
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Scientific American recently published an article about a new study that looked at how different forests around the world handle drought. What they found was that forests that have a large variety of different tree species were more resilient in a drought than forests with few different types of trees. They attribute the difference to…