Crops
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The Weather Channel posted a set of photos taken of farm destruction from Hurricanes Harvey in Texas and Irma in Florida and the Southeast. Not many photos have made it out of Puerto Rico yet but the few I have seen show almost total devastation of the crops there from Hurricane Maria, along with the…
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Here are a couple of new video series that you might enjoy watching related to climate and agriculture. The first is ABC News Food Forecast featuring Ginger Zee from Good Morning America (a former student of my husband) about how weather and climate impacts our food. You can see the list of videos at https://abc.go.com/shows/food-forecast/episode-guide.…
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Hurricanes Harvey and Irma did quite a bit of damage to cotton in the South. According to Growing Georgia here, cotton growers in Georgia sustained at least $100 million in damage from Irma, resulting in at least a 10 percent loss due to the storm, although amounts could go higher once the final tallies are…
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The Southeast Farm Press posted a story this week about the expansion of Brassica carinata, an inedible seed whose oil can be turned into jet fuel as a crop in the Southeast. USDA has awarded a $15 million grant to researchers at the University of Florida to study how this crop can be commercialized to…
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As trends to warmer temperatures continue, farmers in the northern US and Canada are watching to see how their growing season changes. A warmer climate may lead to opportunities to grow new and different crops and to change their management practices. A longer growing season will also lead to new opportunities in the Southeast. You…
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If you grow specialty crops in the Southeast, you may be interested in this pair of studies which look at the vulnerability of specialty crops in California and in the Midwestern US to changes in climate that are expected to occur over the next fifty years, including changes in the temperatures and growing seasons as…
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Puerto Rico experienced the destruction of not one but two tropical storms so far this season. First, Tropical Storm Irma gave a glancing blow to the territory as it traveled north of the island, providing winds and flooding rain to the area. Then came the direct and far more devastating blow from Hurricane Maria, which…