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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.
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Rainfall varied widely across the state in April. Heavy rain fell in the southern half of the state while the northern portion was mainly quite dry, leading to the development of moderate drought in the northeast counties. Temperatures almost everywhere were above normal for the month. Tornadoes were observed on April 1 and 6.…
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The latest climate summary for Florida is now available for April 2016. You can read it at https://climatecenter.fsu.edu/products-services/summaries/climate-summary-for-florida-april-2016.
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The USDA has a new detailed posting on Medium.com describing how their work in agriculture and forestry are helping producers to deal with changes in climate and other long-term risks over time. You can read their review article at https://medium.com/usda-results/how-food-and-forestry-are-adapting-to-a-changing-climate-2f5b84bff9c0#.dcpt7pnr9. The USDA has supported this blog since it started through grants that help pay my salary…
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This week, May 2-6, is National Air Quality Week. EPA has a web site which describes some of the events which are going on around the country at https://www3.epa.gov/airnow/airaware/. You can also find information on this topic from NOAA at https://www.airquality.noaa.gov/.
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AgWeb reported today that the State Senate in South Carolina passed a bill giving aid to farmers that were devastated by the October floods at the end of last growing season. According to the post, “Agriculture officials say October’s torrential rains wiped out $330 million worth of crops at harvest time. Farmers lost an additional…