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The Nature Conservancy has a new study about the value of planting trees in cities. The study looked at both the impacts on reducing temperature in urban areas but also reducing particulates through absorption by the trees. You can read a description of the work at The Atlantic CityLab at https://www.citylab.com/design/2016/10/the-big-green-payoff-from-bigger-urban-forests/505913/. You can read the…
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If you are a CoCoRaHS precipitation observer, thank you! Here is a message from the CoCoRaHS headquarters about your end of the water year summaries and how to get your Certificate of Appreciation. If you are not yet an observer, won’t you consider joining? I admit it’s a little frustrating to enter a “0” every…
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(Note: This is a long summary but there were many impacts from the drought and Hurricane Matthew this month and I wanted to get them all in.) October 2016 was much hotter than normal across the state. Some areas were more than six degrees above normal, the fifth month in a row of such high…
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Some folks plant food plots to bring in deer for hunting or watching. With this year’s drought, planting is behind schedule. But Mark Mauldin from the Panhandle Ag e-News say that there is no point in planting these plots until some rain occurs. Otherwise the seeds won’t germinate and the plots will not survive, wasting…
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While I talk more about peanuts, cotton, corn and soybeans in this blog, there are many other crops in the Southeast that are affected by weather and climate. The Southeast Farm Press published a story this week about the problems that Virginia tobacco growers have had with the weather conditions this year. The problems began…
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The USDA has published a new comprehensive resource book on practices that agricultural producers can use to adapt to variability and trends in climate. While the material is aimed at the Midwest and Northeast, there is a lot of information here that would also be useful to Southeastern farmers and extension agents. I especially like…
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The Panhandle Ag e-News from Florida had an interesting article about the production of rice in Florida, which is increasing although it is still a small crop. According to the article, rice has been grown in southern Florida for the lat 60 years, but is now being grown as a cover crop in rotation with…