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As I mentioned earlier this week, the Atlantic Ocean’s tropical season is starting to kick in, and there are two areas which may become named storms in the next few days. You can read more about it at Weather Underground here. No immediate threat for us in the US, but they will bear watching for…
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Here’s an interesting article from Fivethirtyeight.com about why NOAA and USDA have slightly different plant hardiness zone maps. These maps help gardeners determine what kind of plants are likely to do well in a given location and are based primarily on lowest minimum temperatures. Because of the way they are calculated, the two maps show…
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AgWeb posted a story this week about a new potential source of income for farmers–selling carbon credits for offsets of carbon emissions. The first rice-farming carbon credits were sold to Microsoft by a rice farmer in Arkansas. This might be a way in the future for agricultural producers to bring a new income stream into…
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The Southeast Farm Press posted a story today about the lack of peaches in South Carolina due to the combination of a warm winter followed by a severe frost in mid-March, which killed off about 90% of the peaches in the state this year. The estimated losses to the SC peach crop are estimated at…
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The latest NOAA outlook for July and for July through September 2017 show that for both the one- and three-month temperatures, there is an increased chance of above normal temperatures across the Southeast but especially in south Florida. Equal chances of above, near or below precipitation amounts covers the Southeast, indicating no good climate signals…
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The significant rains that parts of the Southeast has seen this past week or two have put a significant dent in the drought across the region. Severe drought has been completely removed from Florida and remains only in a reduced area of southwest Georgia. Other dry areas have also been improved, although some lingering moderate…
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At 2 pm EDT today June 15, the Northeast Climate Hub will present a webinar on farm strategies for maximizing energy design and efficiency. According to their web site, “Participants will learn how energy-oriented design and operation can impact the resilience (the capacity to recover quickly from challenges) and long term success of farm operations,…
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