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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…
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As you know from previous posts, El Niño can cause a variety of climate anomalies across the globe. A story today from AgWeb highlights the hot conditions in Brazil in recent weeks and its impacts on Brazil’s corn crop, which is often planted as a second crop behind soybeans. In the map below of global El…
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The Progressive Dairyman published an article last month on the impacts of a changing climate on animal production. It was written by Tamara Scully and based on a dairy conference I spoke at with a number of other experst in Ithaca NY last summer. It describes how changes in temperature, rainfall, growing season length, and…
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“Airglow” is defined as a luminosity or “glowing” given off by the Earth’s own atmosphere. Marshall Shepherd describes the science of airglow in a recent blog post at Forbes.com here. It turns out that what we think of as airglow (not to be confused with aurora) is actually a collection of several different phenomena. Jason Samenow…
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Growing Georgia reprinted a press release from AgPR today which has a good discussion about how the weather conditions associated with El Niño and La Niña affect nitrogen availability in the soil. While it’s commercial in nature, the post contains useful information for those who are planning nitrogen applications and budgeting for coming years. You…
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In the latest edition of “Beyond the Data”, Deke Arndt of NOAA discusses the warmth that enveloped the entire US in March 2016. His study shows that this is the first time since records began in 1895 that every single climate division in the US, including Alaska, reported temperatures in the “warmer than normal” category.…