Management Actions from the Northeast Hub Region
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Digging into Biochar
Biochar has been gaining popularity in the Northeast over the last few years as a soil amendment in crop fields and pastures, but farmers still have a lot of questions.
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Economics of Long-term Soil Health Practices
This project is assessing the economic costs and benefits of implementing soil health practices (particularly, cover crops and no-tillage) on Northeast and North Central US agriculture. It leverages…
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The Climate Learning Forum
The goal of the Climate Learning Forum is to bring together the diversity of perspectives and voices of agricultural and forestry service providers in order to collaboratively advance climate…
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Healthy Trees: A New Climate Learning Forum Initiative
The Climate Learning Forum is developing and delivering several learning initiatives, the first of which is Healthy Trees. The “Healthy Trees” initiative addresses and advances issues identified as…
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Considering Climate Change in Tree Planting
This guide provides a step-by-step process to help you consider climate change when selecting a tree for planting at a site and provides a framework to help learn about the projected habitat…
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Forest Owner Carbon and Climate Education (FOCCE) program
The Forest Owner Carbon and Climate Education (FOCCE) program is a collaboration between thirteen university extension divisions and three USDA Climate Hubs which seeks to educate forest owners and…
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Turn the Tap: A Focus on Soil Moisture Education
To help farmers improve their irrigation efficiency and gain greater knowledge on how to monitor soil moisture conditions, two fact sheets were crafted to give overview of soil moisture monitoring,…
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Climate Leadership Legacy: Interviews with Dr. David Hollinger
Listen to a short collection of recorded conversations with Dr. David Hollinger on becoming and being a research scientist, starting a climate hub, and the importance of climate optimism through it…
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Daily runoff forecasting in agricultural watersheds: A promising tool for nutrient management
When rainfall occurs shortly after nutrient application, nutrients like nitrogen and phosphorus can be quickly transferred to runoff waters. Thus, these events are of great concern for water quality…
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Testing the Novel Shallow Well at Hart Farm in Maine
In 2021, Hart Farm installed a shallow well to serve as their main source of irrigation water for their vegetable crops. The farm will play a key role in helping researchers answer questions about…
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Spending More Time Indoors: It’s What’s in Store for US Honey Bee Colonies
Our changing climate is resulting in increasingly unstable conditions for bees. These challenges make the prospect of storing bees in facilities with controlled, consistent climate conditions more…