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While assessment of total agricultural damages from the flooding near Baton Rouge LA will await a more comprehensive look once people and animals are safe and roads are safe to travel, an initial assessment of potential losses from the second rice crop could be as much as $14 million, according to an article in AgWeb…
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I’m always interested in new ways to display weather and climate data. Here are a couple of recent web sites that allow you zoom to different spatial scales and choose from a lot of different variables. Geo Awesomeness described a new weather mapping site called Ventusky.com which allows you to look at many different variables…
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If you are interested in beef cattle and how they are affected by changes in climate, you might be interested in this upcoming webinar from Great Plains Grazing, a group of Oklahoma extension agents and research specialists committed to adapt grazing strategies to changing conditions. Register now for our August webinar! “Does Climate Change Your Plate”…
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Do you feel like the rain showers that are passing through the area are always missing you? One of the problems with summertime thunderstorms is that they are highly variable in space and time, hitting some areas repeatedly while missing others altogether. Over the long haul, the rainfall should distribute itself out, but on the…
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A story in the Southeast Farm Press this week discussed the Florida Cracker Cattle breed and how it is being used to preserve important wetlands and aquifer recharge areas of northern Florida. According to the article, “The Florida Cracker Cattle breed that graze his land descend from those first brought to the state in the…
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The latest outlook from the Climate Prediction Center show that for both September and for fall (September through November), warmer and drier than normal conditions are likely to continue in most of the Southeast. This could be good or bad news for farmers, since continued warm and dry conditions may make it difficult to grow…
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The latest Drought Monitor, released this morning, indicates an expansion of extreme drought in the Atlanta metro region, but otherwise slight decreases or no change in the Southeast. Cooler temperatures which are expected to return to the area this weekend should help reduce stress on plants and animals, but dry conditions are expected to continue…
Posted in: Drought