Harris-Mann Climatology has discovered a long-term climate cycle to the current severe drought in the central U.S. and sees higher grain and soybean prices later in 2013.
The increased yields from improved soil drainage and long waits to get tile installed presents no-tillers with a new opportunity for a sideline enterprise.
As drought conditions persist and water supplies are pressured, an increasing number of farmers, including no-tillers, are turning to subsurface drip-irrigation systems to maximize water use.
Source: By Ann Perry, U.S. Department of Agriculture
Plants can adapt to extreme shifts in water availability, such as drought and flooding, but their ability to withstand these extreme patterns will be tested by future climate change, according to a study by U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists and their cooperators.
Farmers in top U.S. grain states are planning to rotate to other crops after repeated plantings of corn on the same fields, combined with a devastating drought in 2012, badly hurt yields.
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack this week designated 597 counties in 14 states as primary natural disaster areas due to drought and heat, making all qualified farm operators in the areas eligible for low-interest emergency loans.
Source: Steve Prochaska, Ohio State University Extension
Water, either too much or too little, may be the single most important factor in determining crop yields when other production factors such as genetics, seeding rate, planting date, fertility, weed, insect and disease control, etc. are held constant.
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