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The Peanut & Mycotoxin Innovation Lab at UGA is currently involved with a number of ways to help partners in Haiti deal with the unprecedented impacts that some parts of that country felt after Hurricane Matthew swept across the western part of Hispaniola. In some areas nearly 100 percent of the crops and 50 percent…
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The Florida Climate Center has just published a report on Hurricane Matthew and its impacts on Florida. You can read it at https://climatecenter.fsu.edu/images/docs/Hurricane_Matthew_Florida_summary.pdf. It includes storm summary data and links to NWS reports from individual forecast offices.
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The Southeast Farm Press published an article today looking at early results of growing olive varieties in northern Florida. There are also some test groves in Georgia and a lot of interest by other farmers in adding this new crop into the mix of options. You can read the preliminary results here.
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NOAA’s latest set of climate predictions was released this morning and show that warmer and drier conditions than normal are likely to occur over large parts of the Southeast for the period November through April, particularly in south Alabama and Georgia and in Florida. These predictions are consistent with NOAA’s reissue of a La Niña…
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The Drought Monitor released this morning shows an expansion of exceptional and extreme drought across northern Georgia and Alabama. Extreme drought also expanded in South Carolina and was introduced into western North Carolina. Moderate drought also now covers almost all of Alabama except for a small area east of Mobile Bay. With almost no rain…
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You may not be aware that there are regular webinars on climate conditions in the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River basin offered to stakeholders in the ACF region. During non-drought periods they are offered once a month but lately because of the drought in parts of the basin, we have been holding them bi-weekly. The next one will…
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The Southeast Farm Press had an excellent slide show on damage to North Carolina farm fields caused by the flooding from Hurricane Matthew here. Many fields were completely submerged, ruining soybeans and cotton as well as other crops. These pictures were taken by Hyde County Extension Agent Andrea Gibbs. She credits helicopter pilot Sid Cayton of…