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AgWeb published an article in late March describing the changes that have occurred in growing season across the US since 1980, including graphs of both spring and fall frost changes and length of growing season. You can read it here. They attribute the changes to increasing temperatures over that time period. The article also relates the…
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A webinar on management of beef cattle selection and management for adaptation to drought and on the future of US cattle operations is being offered through Purdue University on April 20 at 1:00 pm Central Time (2 pm EDT). You can get details about the webinar and register at https://climateagwater.wordpress.com/webinar-4/.
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With the current weather pattern locked in place, high pressure will dominate most of our region for the next week. This means little chance of precipitation falling, and most areas will get less than a quarter of an inch for the week. Most of that is likely to fall late in the week as the…
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NOAA’s latest El Niño blog post indicates that not only are we still in a strong El Niño but that they have also issued a La Niña watch for the next few months. I’ve been talking about the possibility of swinging from one extreme to the other in the past few months, and now it…
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I’ve been attending the Southeast Coastal Community of Practice meeting this week at Tybee Island GA. Yesterday we had the chance to visit the new installation of a “living shoreline” at the Ben Burton 4-H camp nearby. This allows a more natural form of protection to prevent coastal erosion from rising sea levels than a…
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The Packer posted a story this week about delays in harvesting of blueberries from Florida and Georgia as well as frost in North Carolina that may reduce volumes this year. At the same time, California’s yields are doing well due to ideal weather. The combination of these conditions may lead to a lower than usual…
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AgWeb posted a story this week on the negative impacts of El Niño on cattle herds in South Africa. Drought related to the phenomenon has reduced pastures and caused producers to eliminate cattle from their herds. The extra beef produced has resulted in a drop in prices which have negatively impacted beef producers in many…