Grazing Lands Topics from the Southwest Hub Region
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Southwestern Drought Seen in Pasture, Rangeland, and Forage Insurance Program
To help farmers cope with drought, programs like the Pasture, Rangeland, and Forage (PRF) insurance program managed by the USDA’s Risk Management Agency provide financial support. Data from the USDA’…
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Checking On The Cows From Your Phone - Technologies for Precision Ranching
Precision ranching involves the use of technologies such as smart-sensors to allow for automated monitoring or task completion, and ultimately more precise and efficient management of animals and the…
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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 the Nation.
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Livestock Ranching, Rangelands, and Resilience: Ensuring Adaptive Capacity in an Increasingly Variable Climate
Beginning in 2018 and concluding in 2022, the USDA Northern Plains Climate Hub helped conduct a research and outreach project to explore the concept of "socio-ecological resilience" from…
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Estimating rangeland grazing loss for the Noninsured Crop Disaster Assistance program: tools, challenges, solutions
The Southwest and Northern Plains Climate Hubs convened an online forum in June 2021, with FSA personnel and partners from five Western states to discuss challenges and solutions for estimating…
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New Drought Monitoring Dashboard Addresses Ranchers’ Key Questions
A new Ranch Drought Monitoring Dashboard aims to provide information to help ranchers in the Great Plains and Southwest U.S. answer common drought-related questions and to support rancher decision-…
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The hidden world of soil seed banks may help restore Western rangelands
New research is showing that arid and semi-arid rangeland soils contain surprisingly biodiverse and abundant seed banks; these seeds persisting in the soil may provide a natural resource to help…
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Drought Learning Network updates
At least 95% of resource managers want to hear from peers about lessons learned during drought. The Drought Learning Network (DLN) is a new consortium of climate service providers and resource…
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The Native American Rangeland Training Initiative
The Native American Rangeland Training Initiative project aims to address tribal training and education through courses, rangeland management toolkits, and a website.
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Grass-Cast Tutorial Webinar
The Grassland Productivity Forecast, or Grass-Cast, is an experimental model that generates map-based forecasts of grassland productivity, offering a potential new tool in the land manager’s drought…
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Spatio-temporal analysis of Federal crop insurance cause of loss data: A roadmap for research and outreach efforts
Federal crop insurance provides a financial safety net for farmers against insured perils such as drought, heat, and freeze. In this white paper, we analyze publicly-available Federal crop insurance…