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Here’s a new toy you can play with to see how agricultural losses as measured by crop insurance claims vary from year to year and state to state. It’s an interactive map viewer by the USDA Southwest Climate Hub, and allows you to dig down to the county level to see variations by crop as…
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The Tampa Bay Times reported this week that losses due to the destruction of Hurricane Irma on Florida agriculture are increasing as the harvest advances. The biggest loser may be the citrus industry, which continues to see more losses as damage to the fruit from the winds comes to light. The losses to citrus alone…
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In spite of the damage caused by Hurricane Irma, UGA Extension Pecan Specialist Lenny Wells thinks that the final tally in pecan yields this year will be very good. Pecan harvest has been running about ten days ahead of usual due to weather conditions earlier this year, and harvest should be completed by early December.…
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The State Climate Office of North Carolina has issued their guidance on what to expect this weather in NC. They provide a discussion of the current La Niña forecast and some other climate variables that may play a role as well as a list of several analog years similar to this year’s conditions. While the…
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The latest Drought Monitor released this morning shows an increase in abnormally dry conditions across the Southeast since last week. A large area of abnormally dry conditions was introduced into Florida, and two areas of moderate drought were introduced into Georgia this week as well as expanding in South Carolina. Considering that very little rain…
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If you’ve never heard the term ‘medicane’ then you are not alone. A rare tropical storm is forming in the Mediterranean Sea and is already causing big impacts on Greece, including torrential flooding. Very few of these storms, dubbed ‘medicanes” has ever been seen because the ocean temperatures and atmospheric dynamics there are not usually…
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Every once in a while I run across a story about an agricultural oddity that is delicious to read. In this case, almost literally. Gastro Obscura published a short article on a tree in Syracuse NY that contains grafts from 40 different varieties of stone fruit. You can read it and see some pictures here.