Southern Plains
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Opportunities with the USDA Climate Hubs
Here are recently posted positions, post-docs, and fellowships that are available with one of the regional Climate Hubs.
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Dry Dry Dry Dry Dry Dry Dry Dry Dry
That’s the blog.
Not really, but it could be.
This is really starting to feel like a…
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Vulnerability Assessments of U.S. Agriculture and Forests (2018)
Two special issues in the journal Climatic Change feature vulnerability assessments of agriculture and forestry across…
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Wildfire Impacts on the Southern Plains
Between 2016 and 2018, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Southern Plains Climate Hub led a project to assess…
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Dealing with high input costs or climate change? Why not do both?
When you work on climate change issues and agriculture, you never know what you’re going to get hit with when you go to…
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Understanding Soil Health and Watershed Function: A Teacher's Manual
By studying soil health principles, future farmers can learn to harness the power of biological work to help them…
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Cows to the rescue (again)—this time helping to prevent wildfires
At first glance, that’s pretty disheartening—on one hand, the increase in growing forage for cattle is a reason to…
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If you have cattle, you should check out Grass-Cast
The weather can be crazy in the great plains and with the changing climate, it just keeps getting crazier. For farmers…
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Managing risk on the farm
Explore USDA programs that help producers manage risk to extreme weather and climate-driven events.