by Doug Mayo | Oct 2, 2015
August was another very dry month for much of the Panhandle. Drought busting rains did come finally at the end of September, but was not at all uniform across the region, and came too late in the year to boost crop yields. While the heavy rains fell at the very end...
by Doug Mayo | Sep 18, 2015
Source: Southeast Innovative Farming Team Tropical Pacific Heating up Over the past several months, water temperatures in the central and eastern Pacific Ocean have been warming at an alarming rate, building one of the strongest El Niño’s in decades. El Niño refers...
by Doug Mayo | Aug 7, 2015
June and July were certainly hot and dry across much of the Panhandle. The above graphic shows the June rainfall totals with isolated areas having less than two inches while along the coast, isolated areas had more than 10 inches fall in the month. Most of the...
by Doug Mayo | Jun 19, 2015
David Zierden, State Climatologist Article posted on Southeast Innovative Farming Team June 19, 2015 Current Conditions – According to the last U.S. Drought Monitor, drought is starting to creep back into the Southeast. The latest map released on June 18...
by Doug Mayo | Jun 5, 2015
As in past years, May was significantly drier than April, with a great deal of variation of rainfall across the Panhandle. The National Weather Service estimates for May rainfall ranged from less than an inch along the gulf coast to more than 6 inches along the...
by Libbie Johnson | May 15, 2015
Enhancing Sustainability Options for Farmers Article by Margaret Lawrence, News Unit Manager, Alabama Cooperative Extension Weather is one of farming’s greatest challenges. But Dr. Brenda Ortiz, a corn and grain crops specialist with Alabama Extension, says farmers’...
