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Growing Georgia published a timely look at the crop conditions for Georgia corn and peanuts this week. In spite of the rainy conditions, southern rust this year is quite low. This may be due to changes this year in the wind patterns which bring the spores up from the tropics. Some of the earliest planted corn…
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Is it ever going to stop raining? I’ve been getting this question a lot in the last couple of weeks, as farmers and everyone else get inundated by repeated rounds of thunderstorms that develop over the afternoon hours and grow in the late afternoon heat. I’ve gotten almost three inches of rain in the last…
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While the total amount of abnormally dry area in the Southeast decreased from last week, there was a new addition to the map. A small area of abnormally dry conditions was introduced to west central Alabama, while the northeastern spot of abnormally dry conditions shrunk. All of the region remains drought-free this week.
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If you love to look at the stars in the night sky, you have no doubt been frustrated that you can’t always see very many where you live, especially if you live in an urban area. This new interactive map helps show you where the darkest places in the world can be found. In the…
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The Supreme Court of the United States issued its last statement of the season on the Georgia-Florida “water wars” case, which has been ongoing between the two states for a number of years. In the ruling, which you can find at https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/17pdf/142%20orig_h3ci.pdf, the five majority justices sent the case back to the Special Master who had…
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One of the tragedies of lightning storms is that sometimes when lightning hits a tree, injury or death can occur to anything below that tree, including cattle that have taken shelter from the storm. A recent story about one such event prompted this article from Drovers Newsletter about the odd comments received on social media…
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The Packer posted a story this week about problems that watermelon producers are having with production this year due to the heavy rains they have experienced. Wet fields have hampered planting of seedlings and rains every 2-3 days have prevented application of needed chemicals to the young plants. You can read more here.