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Columbia Metropolitan magazine posted a story recently on the importance of the timber industry to South Carolina. Did you know that timber is SC’s top crop? Forest product industries now have an estimated economic impact of more than $18 billion in the state, according to the South Carolina Forestry Commission, and the annual value of…
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I ran across some great resources on climate and agriculture from Iowa State’s Extension program. While some of them are specific to the Midwest and to corn production, most of them could be used in the Southeast as well. Check them out at https://store.extension.iastate.edu/Topic/Crops/Climate-and-Agriculture. Note that although it says “store” all of the items seem to…
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The latest Drought Monitor came out this morning and shows that the area experiencing moderate drought in the Southeast has almost tripled since last week. D1 now covers all of the northern counties of Georgia with a small excursion into Alabama, and all of western North Carolina is also designated D1 this week. Drought conditions…
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Since I grew up in Grand Rapids MI downwind of Lake Michigan, I know how much the lake can affect local temperature and weather conditions in the area. AgWeb has a nice write-up of the impacts of the lake on farmers in northern Indiana, which is also affected by the lake, especially in winter and…
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I spent today at a workshop in Rock Eagle, the 4-H camp near Eatonton GA, working with 4-H agents on ways to teach weather and climate in the classroom and in 4-H camp programs. The documentation for the toolkit is online and anyone can use it. The 4-H Weather and Climate Variability Toolkit is a collaborative…
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AgWeb posted an article this week from Ben Potter on how standing water in the fields can affect young corn plants. While parts of the Southeast are in drought, many areas of southern Georgia and Alabama have experienced a lot of rain and some fields are quite wet. Corn is especially susceptible to problems if flooding…
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The Packer noted this week that the cherry harvest in the Pacific Northwest will be record-setting for some producers. They attribute this to a warm spring which hastened blooming of cherry trees and helped set a lot of fruit quickly. You can read the article here.