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Rome Ethredge published a striking article describing some of the problems that farmers have been having due to the recent wet conditions in his blog at Seminole Crop E News today. The blog article shows several pictures of soybeans that sprouted in the combine when the farmer had to stop harvesting for two weeks due…
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Even though the El Niño is still growing towards a new record, climatologists and farmers are starting to look ahead to what the end of El Niño means for production next year. The El Niño is expected to wane starting in spring. In some years it moves to the opposite pattern, called La Niña, and…
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The Southeast Farm Press ran a video and written story earlier this week on the three weather catastrophes that hit South Carolina this year–frost, drought and flooding rains. The late spring frost cut peach production somewhat, while the drought cut yields of several crops. When the flooding rains came in early October, they wiped out…
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CBS News had an interesting slide show this week on impacts of the California drought on agriculture and the environment that you might not have thought of. For example, it is becoming difficult to find any grass-fed beef in the region because there is no grass for the cattle to eat. And chili peppers are…
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The weather through Tuesday should be sunny and dry for most of the Southeast this week. From Tuesday through Thursday a storm that will bring up to 6 inches to the Arkansas-Missouri region will move through the region. Fortunately, the rain amounts in the Southeast will be less, close to the normal of just under…
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Grazing the Net posted a link to a compelling video on a rescue of some trapped cattle who were threatened by a wildfire. The storm spotter for Channel 6 in Oklahoma City was out watching fires in the area when he noticed some cattle trapped by a fence as the fires approached. He opened a…
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This week the current strong El Niño tied the all-time sea surface temperature record of 2.8 degrees C above the long-term average with 1997, the record-holder for the strongest El Niño. Since the current El Niño still looks like it will grow for another month or two before it starts its inevitable decay, it should…