Disruptive Weather: Consistency in Chaos
(Room International Ballroom)
16 Jan 19
9:10 AM
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10:00 AM
Tracks:
Top Producer General Session, TPS General Session
Each year, the fate of our agricultural productivity lies in the hands of a turbulent, chaotic, and every changing atmosphere. We strive for stability, growth, and sustainability in our farming operations but ultimately, the weather determines the outcome of our efforts. Can we strategize and optimize our time based upon weather information? How reliable are forecasts? Is climate change real and if it is, will it impact production agriculture in the US in a positive or negative way? We will focus on how to consume weather information to make timely and informed decisions. We will discuss the meteorology that drives big yielding years as well those years with drought, heatwaves, and floods. We will look long term at the major climate trends across the US and analyze the forecasts for the rest of Winter as well as the upcoming Spring and Summer. We will finish with a discussion about the progress of the 2018/19 South American growing season.