Natural Resources
Weather
Adjusting to Climate Change: Adaptation and Mitigation Stretegies
This publication defines and describes mitigation and adaptation strategies used to adjust to climate changes on Earth. It compares the two types of strategies and describes their effects on cities, agriculture, and h...
This publication discusses when corn is most susceptible to hail damage, determining yield loss due to stand reduction and defoliation, determining direct ear damage, bruising and stalk damage, and estimating total yie...
The United States sees an average of 1,000 recorded tornadoes each year, with an average of 80 deaths and 1,500 injuries annually. While damaging tornadoes are most common in the spring and summer as weather patterns cha...
Climate Change and Greenhouse Gas Mitigation: Challenges and Opportunities for Agriculture
Greenhouse gases (GHGs) are of increasing concern because of their potential role in promoting rapid and undesirable change in climate. Agriculture ironically serves as both a source and a sink for this increase in GHGs....
Climate Change and Human Health
This publication describes the general effects of changing climate on human health, covering both positive and negative effects. It is part of a Climate Change series of publications.
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Climate Change: Are you preparing for it?
This publication provides an overview of how changing climate conditions will affect Indiana and the Midwest and offers sensible strategies for coping with these changes. Understanding past and future environmental chang...
Climate Change: Communication strategies to support local planning
Despite strong evidence that climate change is happening, many people do not realize the urgency with which we need to act, nor do they fully understand the types of impacts facing their communities. This publication pro...
This publication defines and describes the tools used to understand past climate and to predict climate in the future. It is part of a Climate Change series of publications.
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Climate Variability and Climate Change
Weather is to climate as a page is to a book. A few days of weather do not give the entire story of climate, just as a single page does not tell the entire story from a book. This publication briefly describes the di...
Climate change is a global problem that will take a global effort to solve. "Global" means all of us contribute to the best of our ability and all change our lifestyles to reduce our impact on climate change. But is t...
Frost Risk of the 1996 Indiana Soybean Crop
This three-page publication entitled, "Frost Risk of the 1996 Indiana Soybean Crop" deals with the amount of risk for soybean crops. Extremely late-planted fields were few and only 10-15% of the crop is at risk. Tabl...
Handling Corn Damaged by Autumn Frost
This publication discusses conditions conducive to frost damage, the effect of frost damage on grain development and yield, handling the damaged corn, and reducing the risk of frost damage. Tables are included listing ...
Harvesting, Drying, and Storing Frost-Damaged Corn and Soybeans
This eight-page publication entitled, "Harvesting, Drying, and Storing Frost-Damaged Corn and Soybeans" discusses frost damage. How far along the plant was when frost occurred reflects on how best to treat the corn and...
Human Activity and the Greenhouse Effect
Every day we generate greenhouse gases through interaction with factories, agriculture, and cars. Our activities produce four major greenhouse gases. This publication briefly describes those gasses and evidence of the...
This publication discusses planting and frost-protecting your fall vegetable garden. Tables are included featuring a planting guide for fall vegetable gardens and the cold temperature tolerance of vegetables. An illust...
This publication briefly describes the scientific method and peer review. It is part of a Climate Change series of publications.
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The conversion of the natural landscape into a town or city is known as urbanization. The once-natural landscape that had vegetation such as grasses, shrubs, trees, and permeable soils is converted into a landscape of...
Utilizing Drought-Damaged Corn
This publication discusses identification of drought stress and its effect on corn growth and yield, possible revenue sources if you are affected by drought, utilizing drought-stressed corn, switching to another crop, ...
Weather Stress in the Corn Crop
This publication discusses moisture stress, stress during various corn growth stages, and suggestions pertaining to weather stress....
This publication briefly describes potential effects of climate change on the Midwest the signs of climate change visible today. This is part of a Climate Change series of publications...
Wind and Snow Control Around the Farm
This resource discusses briefly the principles of wind and snow control and then examines the types of control systems that might be used around the farmstead. It also provides planning guidelines for minimizing wind and...
