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This headline caught my attention: “Buddy, Can You Spare a Ripe Tomato?” With not enough summer heat, California tomatoes are not ripening quickly enough, causing not only tomatoes but all West Coast summer fruits to be priced at a premium. Fortunately, California doesn’t have a lock on growing tomatoes: backyards, Florida and Long Island are [...]

Cloudier, wetter and colder than normal are the tell-tale signs of an active El Niño for the Southern States and that has certainly been the case for the past several months. Indeed, the Mid-Atlantic snows are fresh in our minds, all the additional rain has eliminated drought in nearly all areas of the South and [...]