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Earlier this week Al Jazeera published an interesting story about a new facility in southern Australia that grows 15 percent of the entire production of tomatoes in that country without using soil, fresh water and fossil fuels. According to the story, Sundrop Farms explained its sustainable growing methods this way: “Tomatoes are grown hydroponically in…
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The New York Times has an interesting photo essay on farmers who live and work at the edge of the Gobi Desert. These farmers are dealing with increasing numbers of sandstorms and the erosion of their way of life. You might enjoy the haunting imagery in this article. You can view it at https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/10/24/world/asia/living-in-chinas-expanding-deserts.html?ref=oembed&_r=0.
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The Southeast Farm Press published a story by Dennis Hancock, UGA forage expert, on how to handle feeding livestock in the extreme drought that is plaguing parts of Georgia and Alabama. You can read it here. Until the drought lifts, which seems unlikely anytime soon, livestock producers will have to continue to cull cattle, import…
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Exactly eleven years ago today, Hurricane Wilma made landfall at Cape Romano in southern Florida as a major hurricane. This is the last major hurricane to make landfall in the US. The eleven years’ time period since the last major hurricane landfall is a record; the previous longest time period without a major storm hitting…
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I’ve seen a few forestry-related resources in my email today that you might find useful or interesting. I may add to the list later today once I get through all my email. Extension.org has a series of educational videos on proper tree planting techniques at https://articles.extension.org/pages/73966/tree-placement-and-planting-video-series. Information on taxes for forest landowners are available at https://timbertax.org/.…
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While Hurricane Matthew is now one for the record books for most people (other than those in eastern North Carolina still dealing with the devastating floods in the region associated with the storm), there have been a lot of interesting stories about the storm. Many of these are on scientific aspects of the storm such…
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I was going through mail today and found this interesting commentary on interpreting climate records in Physics Today. The article discusses how different writers can take the same climate information (in this case, the very warm March 2012 temperature record from Durham NC) and write very different headlines based on how they interpret the data. All…