August 2016: Jennifer Phillips of Gansvoort Farm in Germantown, NY explains how variable weather and extreme weather events affect sheep farming. Gansvoort Farm is located in the Hudson Valley and specializes in 100% grass-fed lamb production.
Adaption Strategy: Multiple Adaptation Strategies
COMET-Farm
COMET-Farm is a whole farm and ranch carbon and greenhouse gas accounting system. The tool guides you through describing your farm Read more »
2021 CT Climate Change and Ag Report
The Connecticut Governer’s Climate Change Council’s (GC3) January 2021 report of 61 near-term actions – viewed through an equity lens Read more »
Building Soils for Better Crops Manual
The third edition of Building Soils for Better Crops is a one-of-a-kind, practical guide to ecological soil management. It provides step-by-step Read more »
Preparing Smallholder Farm Families to Adapt to Climate Change
Preparing smallholder farm families to adapt to climate change is a series of five pocket guides: (1) Extension practice for Read more »
2021 PA Climate Impact Assessment Report
As with previous Impacts Assessments, the 2021 Climate Change Impacts Assessment projects that every county will continue to get warmer and wetter, Read more »
PAOneStop Farm Mapping and Conservation Planning System
PAOneStop currently offers a Nutrient Management Mapping Module, a tool allowing users to generate high quality maps that are required for completion of Nutrient Balance Sheets and Nutrient Management Plans.
USDA Climate Hubs
The USDA Regional Climate Change Hubs deliver information to farmers, ranchers and forest land owners to help them adapt to climate Read more »
Adaptation Workbook for Forest Management and Conservation
The adaptation workbook, created by the Northern Institute of Applied Climate Science, is targeted toward forest managers and natural resource Read more »
Managing Cover Crops Profitably Manual
The Managing Cover Crops Profitably book was developed by the Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE) program of the USDA. Read more »
US Climate Resilience Toolkit
The U.S. Climate Resilience Toolkit provides scientific tools, information, and expertise to help people manage their climate-related risks and opportunities, Read more »
Network for Environment and Weather Applications (NEWA)
NEWA, http://newa.cornell.edu, gives end users free access to 40 IPM, crop management, and degree day tools driven by weather data Read more »