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Producers are always looking for new crops to add to their basket of products to enhance profits and reduce risks from weather, pests, and other invasive species. Here is an interesting article from Vegetable and Specialty Crop News about the potential for commercial development of vanilla in south Florida. Normally it is grown in the…
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Growing Produce published a story this week on changes that growers of stone fruits like cherries and peaches are seeing in local climates and how it affects their crops and the pests that impact them. You can read it at https://www.growingproduce.com/fruits/stone-fruit/weather-wreaks-havoc-stone-fruit-season/.
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The latest summary of climate conditions for the Southeast is now available from the Southeast Regional Climate Center. You can read it at https://sercc.com/climateinfo_files/monthly/southeast_monthly_report/southeast201712.pdf.
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Over the last few years, atmospheric methane has increased at a high rate. Methane is a potent greenhouse gas, much more powerful than carbon dioxide, so attempts to understand where it is coming from can help us work on solutions that fight the increase in warming that results from increases in methane. This article in…
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Due to the combination of hurricanes this year, especially Irma, and citrus diseases like citrus greening and “Yellow Dragon Disease”, the yield of orange this year could be the lowest since at least the 1944-45 season according to a Yahoo News article in late December. According to the story, “Forecasters are projecting a yield of…
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Fruit Growers News reported on a recent UF/IFAS web-based tool which is designed to help strawberry growers in Florida and South Carolina manage for botrytis and anthracnose fruit rots. It uses data such as temperature and leaf wetness to advise producers when to spray fungicides to help prevent these devastating diseases. You can read more…
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If you are interested in looking at long-term trends in climate across the US, this “Beyond the Data” article by Jake Crouch does a great job of explaining where to get trend data and how to interpret it. I use NCEI’s tooks like the “Climate at a Glance” tool all the time when I give…