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I ran across this YouTube video discussing how you can protect your farm from wildfire from the EDEN folks at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lh9-s7Xsgos&feature=youtu.be. While wildfires are more prevalent in the western US, fires can and do affect farms in the Southeast as well. This video discusses steps you can take to identify risks and plan for fires as…
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Modern Farmer published a short story on a new website devoted to farmers who have hay to sell or buy. It is located at https://www.hayfinders.com/ and allows farmers to sell or buy hay by location. There are currently no listings in the Southeast, but if you have some hay to sell, you can take a look and…
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One of my favorite movies is “The Shawshank Redemption”, and according to IMDB, it is the highest-rated movie in their database. One of the pivotal scenes late in the movie revolves around a secret cache hidden near an ancient oak tree. This iconic 200-year-old tree, which was filmed in Mansfield, Ohio, fell down this week…
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Groundwater supplies much of the irrigation water in the central Plains of the United States. A lot of this comes from the Ogallala Aquifer. National Geographic produced an interesting set of graphics on the aquifer recently that you might be interested in looking at. You can view it here.
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My colleague Dr. Brenda Ortiz from Auburn University recently had a paper published in Nature about climatic effects on maize yield in the Southeast that you might find interesting. You can read the article, entitled “Climate Change and ENSO Effects on Southeastern US Climate Patterns and Maize Yield”, at https://www.nature.com/articles/srep29777. Keep in mind that it is a…
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Mark McGinnis of Fair Skies Consulting posted a recent discussion of the temperatures in the eastern Pacific Ocean. In his column he pointed out that the ocean temperatures there are right at the threshold level of a La Niña. Of course, as he pointed out, you generally have to have temperatures that are consistently in…
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The latest 7 day QPF shows another fairly dry week in store for most of the Southeast. When combined with the high temperatures we have been experiencing, this could lead to further expansions in drought across the region. The rain that falls is likely to be spotty in nature, leaving some areas short while others…
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