The Packer printed a story on October 16 describing negative impacts of heavy rain in Florida on fresh tomato availability, in a story available here. Volumes will be down for a few weeks due to losses in Florida and in Baja California, where hurricane-related storms followed by heat and more…
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The Packer noted earlier this week that Chile has suffered some unseasonably cold weather, which has caused damage to blueberries as well as potentially to their other crops of apples, kiwifruit and cherries. However, the extent of the damage is uncertain, since reports have come in from only a few…
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The USDA announced yesterday that they have a new set of web sites for their Climate Hub program. The website is located at https://climatehubs.oce.usda.gov/. In addition to regional information, they also have livestock and crop pages which discuss current research and activities. An events calendar is also listed on the…
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The latest Drought Monitor has just been released and shows that drought conditions in the Southeast have remained almost unchanged from last week. The dry conditions we have seen for the last few days are fairly typical for October, which is one of the driest months in the Southeast, and…
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I love to watch the skies, and tonight we get a treat as the Southeast will observe a partial solar eclipse around sunset on Thursday, October 23. A solar eclipse happens when the moon passes between the Earth and the sun. This time the moon will not completely obscure the…
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On Tuesday the USDA announced a new Farm Bill initiative to assist agricultural producers with losses from severe weather, including drought, according to Growing Georgia. They report “The Actual Production History (APH) Yield Exclusion, available nationwide for farmers of select crops starting next spring, allows eligible producers who have been…
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Weather information is one of the most important things farmers need to know when planning daily and weekly work as well for longer-term farm management. Every producer I talk to has a different favorite source of weather data they like to use for their planning. Some sources include The Weather…
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