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The Southeast Farm Press posted a story this week about the winner of this year’s wheat yield contest, from Cherokee County, AL. Farmer Nick McMichen mentioned that the weather in spring was very favorable for wheat development and also was excellent for minimizing diseases. But he said what really made the difference was careful attention to…
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In case you were not able to attend the meeting for agricultural producers held in Tifton earlier this week, a video of the meeting and slides along with some links to disaster resources are now available on the UGA FARE blog. This contains information about UGA emergency resources, NRCS disaster resources, info for organic farmers,…
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While the amount of damage to Alabama agriculture from Hurricane Michael is considerably less than damage to Georgia agriculture, it is still a staggering blow to producers in the southeast corner of that state. Damage was spread across all sectors of the farm economy, with losses to crops leading the way at $120 million. You…
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The High Plains Regional Climate Center provides ACIS maps of climate information for the US. I use these maps when I make my own climate summaries. But until now, these have only been produced as static maps. Now, HPRCC has announced that their maps are also being made available as shapefiles which you can use…
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I’ve never been to Gulf Coast except for a brief trip to Destin FL, and another to St. George Island, so I have never experienced what visiting that part of the country was like before Hurricane Michael. Now, residents are struggling to determine what comes next. In Mexico Beach, where the storm did its worst,…
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The National Weather Service office in Peachtree City, GA has posted a summary of Hurricane Michael’s impacts on Georgia, including maps of wind speed, rainfall totals, photos, and maps of tornado paths associated with the storm. You can view it here.
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I saw a very interesting article in Nature magazine this week about how dandelion seeds float through the air. Apparently the science of how they sustain flight after someone blows them away was not well understood, and when researchers figured it out, it showed a new method of flight that has not been previously seen…
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