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Included below is a collection of state-level drought information from a variety of sources for Alaska, Idaho, Oregon, and Washington. This is a living document that will be updated as new information becomes available.
For USDA disaster assistance programs to help farmers and ranchers recover from a natural disaster, including drought, see this document.
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The Northeast region of the United States is home to a tremendous array of edible crop production including all except sub-tropical species.
The region has a wide variety of climate zones, soil types, and accessible, large markets, and has a long history of terminal markets that connect our product to international buyers. Northeast farmers also tend to be early adopters in terms of new crops and new production techniques. The fact that our farms tend to be smaller allows the industry as a whole to be responsive to change. These attributes help compe
Rangelands of the Northwest are complex, interconnected systems covering nearly 100 million acres that are sensitive to drought, wildfire, invasive species, and grazing. The large land extent and multiple ownerships characteristic of rangelands pose challenges to access, monitoring and decision-making under rapidly changing conditions.
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Nutrient management guidelines have largely been developed to protect water quality, but practices that improve nitrogen (N) use efficiency by crops also help reduce emissions of the potent greenhouse gas nitrous oxide (N2O).
Agriculture is the largest source of N2O, with a majority produced in soils receiving fertilizer and manure. The largest emissions of N2O generally come from wet soils.
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Notice: This project page is no longer being updated as of January 2023.
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A century of wildfire suppression
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Pigs are not native to the Americas, they originated in southeast Asia and from there expanded their range through Eurasia and North Africa1. Humans are responsible for introducing pigs everywhere else. In what is now the United States, pigs were first introduced by Polynesian settlers on the Hawaiian Islands 800 - 1000 years ago. Domesticated pigs arrived on the mainland in the 16th century, brought by European explorers and settlers2.
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Dr. Roesch-McNally has a M.S. from the University of Washington School of Environmental and Forestry Science, where she focused on environmental economics. Her PhD, from Iowa State University, is in Sociology and Sustainable Agriculture. As part of her dissertation research, she worked as one of the lead social scientists on a large-scale interdisciplinary USDA-NIFA project.
In the dim, red glow of the immense warehouse, tall stacks of wooden boxes are lined up in seemingly endless rows. They will stand here in this dark chilly environment for the next couple of months until spring returns to California.
But this is not just a warehouse full of surplus beekeeping equipment, it is an indoor storage facility. And the boxes aren’t empty, but are filled with live, honey bee colonies.
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What is climate?The term ‘climate’ refers to the larger, more long-term systems in which weather takes place. Describing the climate of a place includes things like temperature, precipitation and wind averaged out over a period of time (usually 30 years).Climate is measured using statistical means and averages and is often discussed in terms of long-term regional patterns, such as ‘warming trends in the Arctic.’ Weather, on the other hand, is usually talked about in terms of events that are much more localized and short term.
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