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The Washington Post had an interesting article this week on how companies use weather predictions and observations to drive their sales of items that are seasonal. So a forecast of snow might cause an increase in ads for snow shovels, skis, and soup. Or a forecast of hot weather might increase sales on ice cream.…
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Most of your Thanksgiving dinners today probably had some type of cranberry sauce. My family goes for the traditional jellied sauce, but growing up, my parents always ground their own fresh sauce with oranges in a food mill. No matter how you like them, you probably don’t know all of these facts about cranberries, including…
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El Niño rains have affected production areas for strawberries in both California and Florida in recent weeks, and the continued rainy conditions predicted for the next few months are expected to affect the availability of strawberries for the next few months. You can read the article in The Packer at https://www.thepacker.com/news/strawberry-prices-likely-remain-high-el-nino-looms.
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I’ve been getting a few questions about the Paris climate meeting that is starting on Monday. You may be as well. Here is a blog post from Dr. Marshall Shepherd providing the history of these big climate meetings in the past and what they hope to accomplish in this meeting. You can read it at https://www.forbes.com/sites/marshallshepherd/2015/11/25/so-what-is-this-paris-climate-meeting-anyway-the-basics-of-cop21/. …
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I hope you all have a wonderful Thanksgiving with family and friends, wherever you are!
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The latest storm in the Eastern Pacific, Hurricane Sandra, could bring another plume of moisture to the south central US later this week. If the storm moves as expected, the moisture will feed into a front in the area and could lead to more wet conditions and potential flooding due to saturated soils that already present…
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Pecan yields this year are likely to be lower than expected due to less than ideal weather conditions during the growing and harvest seasons, according to an article by Clint Thompson of the University of Georgia published in Growing Georgia. The wet, cloudy and warm conditions at harvest led to a deterioration in crop quality…