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  • Tea in Turkey impacted by increasing extremes in weather

    Pam Knox

    January 27, 2015

    The Modern Farmer had a fascinating article this week on the production of tea in Turkey.  According to the article, the people of Turkey consume more tea per capita than any other country in the world.  To provide all this tea, Turkey started growing tea along the eastern shore of the Black Sea, and it […]

    Posted in: Climate and Ag in the news, Crops
  • Mexican watermelons, Chilean grapes affected by bad weather

    Pam Knox

    January 27, 2015

    The Packer noted that bad weather has affected supplies of watermelons from Mexico this year.  They reported that volumes are down quite a bit from earlier in the season due to cold weather, which has delayed the ripening of the crop.  Supplies are expected to be short until mid-March. “On Jan. 21, the U.S. Department […]

    Posted in: Climate and Ag in the news, Crops
  • Big storm in the Northeast

    Pam Knox

    January 26, 2015

    If you like to watch the weather in other parts of the country like I do, you are following the developing story about the blizzard in the Northeast with a lot of interest.  Here are a couple of links to interesting postings on the storm: Antecedent conditions for a nor’easter from the CIMSS satellite blog […]

    Posted in: Climate and Ag in the news
  • Chill hours: average and actual

    Pam Knox

    January 26, 2015

    Winston Eason of Clayton County wrote me this morning asking about finding maps for average chill hours for a class he is teaching on backyard fruit trees and orchards.  So far I have not been successful in finding a Georgia-specific map on average chill hours, but I did run across several other sources of information […]

    Posted in: Climate summaries, Extension agent outreach, Sources of weather and climate data, Tools for climate and agriculture
  • “Business leaders say Midwestern agriculture threatened by climate change”

    Pam Knox

    January 26, 2015

    An article in AgWeb this week with the title above describes a recent report called “Heat in the Heartland” that was written by a number of prominent business leaders about potential threats to corn and other agricultural crops as well as livestock in a warming climate.  You can read the article here.  The article describes […]

    Posted in: Climate and Ag in the news
  • Desert crusts on soil provide new way of measuring past climate in Southwest

    Pam Knox

    January 25, 2015

    How do we know what the climate was before official measurements were taken?  The historical instrumental records only go back to about the 1820s, when surgeons were the official observers at forts across the United States. To look at longer-term climate records, you have to use climate markers like tree rings to determine what the climate […]

    Posted in: Climate and Ag in the news, Climate science
  • Dry conditions return to Georgia

    Pam Knox

    January 24, 2015

    Now that the latest round of rain has mostly left the Southeast, the week ahead should be fairly dry, especially if you are in southern Georgia.  The remnants of the storm are still moving through the coastal areas of North Carolina and rainfall will be enhanced there by the development of an East Coast storm. […]

    Posted in: Climate outlooks
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The “Climate and Agriculture in the Southeast” blog is provided by the Associate Dean of Extension as a service to Extension agents and agricultural producers across the Southeast US. Come here to find out information about the impacts of weather and climate on agriculture across Georgia and beyond.

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