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It is probably no surprise to farmers that frost varies widely across their farms, depending on soil type, soil moisture, and elevation. Rome Ethredge discusses this in a Seminole Crop E News blog post from earlier today, including some of my thoughts on local variations. If you are interested in seeing the extent of the last…
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This combined satellite and radar image today shows the moisture streaming northeast from Tropical Storm Sandra into the front draped through Texas and points northeast. Fortunately for the Southeast, most of this moisture will not affect us but could cause flooding in the central US. Sandra is the strongest hurricane to hit so late in…
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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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