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Is USDA’s New Planting Map Forcing a Global Warming Agenda?

USDA Releases New Plant Hardiness Map

USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map (Image: USDA)

On Wednesday, the U.S. Department of Agriculture released an updated guide for the color-coded map of planting zones often seen on the back of seed packets. Half of the cities included on the guide are now in warmer zones, which many are saying reflects global warming.

The headline used by the Associated Press was “New map for what to plant reflects global warming”.

But AP reports later in the article that USDA spokeswoman Kim Kaplan, who was on the team that created the map, didn’t want the new zones on the to be associated with global warming. AP reports Kaplan as saying even though some areas of the country are now in warmer zones, the map “is simply not a good instrument” to be used to support global climate change. Kaplan says this is because the map is based on the coldest days of the year, not average temperatures.

On the flip side, AP goes on to report David Wolfe, a professor of plant and soil ecology at Cornell University, as saying that the map clearly reflects global warming:

The revised map “gives us a clear picture of the ‘new normal’ and will be an essential tool for gardeners, farmers and natural resource managers as they begin to cope with rapid climate change,” Wolfe said in an email.

According to USDA’s press release, which does not mention the words “global warming” or “climate change,” this update to the plant hardiness zone map comes two decades after the last update in 1990. The new version of the map includes 13 zones, with the addition for the first time of zones 12 (50-60 degrees F) and 13 (60-70 degrees F). Each zone is a 10-degree Fahrenheit band, further divided into A and B 5-degree Fahrenheit zones.

AP points out that entire states, such as Ohio, Nebraska and Texas, are now in warmer zones. Here are some examples AP uses to show the changes in zones:

For example, Des Moines used to be in zone 5a, meaning the lowest temperature on average was between minus 15 and minus 20 degrees. Now it’s 5b, which has a lowest temperature of 10 to 15 degrees below zero. Jerry Holub, manager of a Des Monies plant nursery, said folks there might now be able to safely grow passion flowers.

Griffin, Ga., used to be in zone 7b, where the coldest day would average between 5 and 10 degrees. But the city is now in zone 8a, averaging a coldest day of 10 to 15 degrees. So growing bay laurel becomes possible. It wasn’t recommended on the old map.

The new guide also uses better weather data and offers more interactive technology. For example, gardeners using the online version can enter their ZIP code and get the exact average coldest temperature.

Also, for the first time, calculations include more detailed factors such as prevailing winds, the presence of nearby bodies of water, the slope of the land, and the way cities are hotter than suburbs and rural areas.

The press release states that the new map is generally one 5-degree Fahrenheit half-zone warmer than the previous map throughout much of the United States. This is mostly a result of using temperature data from a longer and more recent time period; the new map uses data measured at weather stations during the 30-year period 1976-2005. In contrast, the 1990 map was based on temperature data from only a 13-year period of 1974-1986.

The Associated Press contributed to this report. 

Comments (101)

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  • Ran60
    Posted on January 26, 2012 at 1:27pm

    Remember…if “global warming” didn’t happen, we would still be in an Ice Age!

    I’m not arguing…I‘m just sayin’….

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    • drphil69
      Posted on January 26, 2012 at 1:31pm

      I was outside in January with a tee shirt, in New Jersey!

      I LOVE GLOBAL WARMING, I WISH IT WOULD HURRY UP!!!

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    • Obeckian1984
      Posted on January 26, 2012 at 1:46pm

      and the Sun spots we are experiencing today has no effect ?

      Sunspots => Solar Flares (charged particles) => Magnetic Field Shift => Shifting Ocean and Jet Stream Currents => Extreme Weather and Human Disruption (mitch battros 1998).

      http://www.earthchangesmedia.com/publish/article-9162531908.php

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    • b0mbtrack1
      Posted on January 26, 2012 at 2:04pm

      About 12-15 years ago I was outside the day after Christmas working in a t-shirt. Since then it has been so cold on various years I would have frozen if I had tried to do that. This year I could be in a t-shirt but it doesn’t mean anything, just like it didn’t mean anything 15 years ago.

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    • Ed_Kel
      Posted on January 26, 2012 at 2:14pm

      It‘s not so much that we conservatives don’t believe in global warming. We simply choose to read the facts and understand that this is a cycle and in no way does our “carbon footprint” have anything to do with climate change.

      Look at it this way. Were there cars and smoke stacks millions of years ago that contributed to the melt of the ice age? Are we suppose to believe that the last century of industrialization has made more of an impact on earth than any other event in it’s billion+ year history?

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    • SpankDaMonkey
      Posted on January 26, 2012 at 2:36pm

      .
      I have a plan. If we could get everybody on the planet to hold their breath for 1 minute a day that would be:

      7,000,000,000(people) x 6L(avg lung cap) x 20 (breath per min avg) = 840,000,000,000 liters

      Damn not enough. Well you can’t blame a Monkey for trying…………..

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    • ProbIemSoIver
      Posted on January 26, 2012 at 2:40pm

      They Heat the upper atmosphere to 100 Degrees Fahrenheit using High-Frequency Active Auroral generators, a.k.a. H.A.A.R.P.
      They are also poisoning us, spraying Chemtrails, creating artificial clouds to help heat up the Ionishpere.

      Here is a History Channel clip confiming 100% weather manipulation.

      95% of Washington D.C. Politicians Are CRIMINALS !!!!

      The U.S.D.A is operated and Managed by these Criminals !!!!!!
      WAKE UP !!!!!

      They have the technology to manipulte the Weather 100% and they are doing so

      6 minute History Channel Clip shows you how the CRIMINALS do this :

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSANoDFfO3Y

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    • ProbIemSoIver
      Posted on January 26, 2012 at 3:41pm

      Here is a better link.

      MAKE THIS VIRAL !!!!

      100% Weather manipulation.

      AL GORE IS A LIAR AND CRIMINAL in addition to all his global elite associates.

      This is the History channel 6 minute clip. (the previous clip was 3 minutes)

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bG9jUz_QYU

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    • Servant314
      Posted on January 26, 2012 at 3:48pm

      There WAS no Ice Age. That’s all part of the evolution hoax.
      There was maybe a semblance of an “Ice Age” in the few years after the great flood (4350 years ago) in northern areas from the massive flood waters and normal seasonal changes afterward, but the vast majority of the geologic layout we see is a result of the events during the Flood of Noah (Genesis 6-9).
      Evolutionists do not have even ONE scientific fact to back up their stupid claims. It’s all nothing but a false religion and philosophy and their “interpretation” of the facts.

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    • @leftfighter
      Posted on January 26, 2012 at 4:42pm

      Just remember, climate change alarmists have warned us before:

      “By 1985, air pollution will have reduced the amount of sunlight reaching earth by one half.” Life magazine, January 1970.

      “If present trends continue, the world will be … eleven degrees colder by the year 2000. This is about twice what it would take to put us in an ice age.” Kenneth E.F. Watt, in “Earth Day,” 1970.

      “In ten years all important animal life in the sea will be extinct. Large areas of coastline will have to be evacuated because of the stench of dead fish.” Dr. Paul Ehrlich, speech during Earth Day, 1970

      “By the year 2000 the United Kingdom will be simply a small group of impoverished islands, inhabited by some 70 million hungry people … If I were a gambler, I would take even money that England will not exist in the year 2000.” Ehrlich, Speech at British Institute For Biology, September 1971.

      “Arctic specialist Bernt Balchen says a general warming trend over the North Pole is melting the polar ice cap and may produce an ice-free Arctic Ocean by the year 2000.” Christian Science Monitor, June 8, 1972.

      “Using computer models, researchers concluded that global warming would raise average annual temperatures nationwide two degrees by 2010.” AP, May 15, 1989.

      There are more…

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    • @leftfighter
      Posted on January 26, 2012 at 4:56pm

      “Climatological Cassandras are becoming increasingly apprehensive, for the weather aberrations they are studying may be the harbinger of another ice age” – Time Magazine June 24, 1974

      A global warming trend could bring heat waves, dust-dry farmland and disease, the experts said… Under this scenario, the resort town of Ocean City, Md., will lose 39 feet of shoreline by 2000 and a total of 85 feet within the next 25 years – San Jose Mercury News – June 11, 1986

      “The West Side Highway [which runs along the Hudson River] will be under water. And there will be tape across the windows across the street because of high winds. And the same birds won’t be there. The trees in the median strip will change.” Dr. James Hansen in an interview with author Rob Reiss around 1988-1989.

      “[By] 1995, the greenhouse effect would be desolating the heartlands of North America and Eurasia with horrific drought, causing crop failures and food riots…[By 1996] The Platte River of Nebraska would be dry, while a continent-wide black blizzard of prairie topsoil will stop traffic on interstates, strip paint from houses and shut down computers.” Michael Oppenheimer, published in “Dead Heat,” St. Martin’s Press, 1990.

      Within a few years “children just aren’t going to know what snow is.“ Snowfall will be ”a very rare and exciting event.” Dr. David Viner, senior research scientist at the climatic research unit (CRU) of the University of East Anglia, interviewed by the U

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    • @leftfighter
      Posted on January 26, 2012 at 4:57pm

      here’s 100 or so more laughable predictions os doom & gloom from the end-of-worlders…

      http://www.lowerwolfjaw.com/agw/quotes.htm

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    • @leftfighter
      Posted on January 26, 2012 at 5:02pm

      Hey, @ProbIemSoIver

      I’ve got three words for ya…

      ooooooEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEOOOOOOOOO! Aluminum hat!

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    • ProbIemSoIver
      Posted on January 26, 2012 at 6:58pm

      @leftfighter

      You are Ignorant. I see you are a Military / Industrial Complex minion. A neocon.
      What I have said is comfirmed. Are you a disinfo Government shill ? I bet you are.
      I am destroying the Global Elite in the Infowar. One link had over 800 hits today, telling the people about the takeover of our government by the FEDERAL RESERVE PRIVATE BANK due to the 1933 Bankruptcy.
      You are a Clown. I have an I.Q. of 168 and I study Law, Science, the Constitution, History and Geo-politics while you are studying some hole-in-the-wall, toothless bartenders saggy sacks while sucking down Fluoridated beer and eating genetically modifyied Chickens, watching some irrelevent football game.
      I am not going to waste my time trying to educate a moron, such as yourself.

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    • NOTYERHUCKLEBERRY
      Posted on January 26, 2012 at 8:05pm

      Remember something, “Ice Age” is a theory, as is “Evolution”. Check your Bible.

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    • From Virginia
      Posted on January 26, 2012 at 8:22pm

      @Obeckian1984 – Sun spots are completely different than solar flares. There is still no Sun spot activity. That is NOT good! And solar flares aren’t good either. I’m not a geologist or physicist, or know what solar flares has on the planet (besides playing havoc with our magnetic field) I do know polar shifts are possible (this is also different than crust displacement – shift) – it has happened before.

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    • STAR SPANGLED SPAMMER
      Posted on January 26, 2012 at 8:24pm

      You people crack me up , especially @leftfighter. Thank you for posting the chicken little statements of the past for everyone here to see, It’s the same empty rhetoric that that we see now today on Global Warming

      Problem solver knows his stuff from what I have seen and if you had an education you would know that the earth, shifts its axis every 20,000 years or so. A simple pole shift that does not cause global warming , but simply relocates the temperatures of the earth to new locations. Africa for one, is famous proof of this. Egypt for instance…. Before the last shifting cycle was tropical and green with heavy rainfall and will return to that after the next shift.

      Global warming and a Chem trail connection? Absolutely 100%! The Al Gore agenda with all his buddies are looking to cash in on this self created farce! It’s simple!… They create the global warming using…. H.A.A.R.P. and spraying. They heat up, whats normally a very cool upper atmosphere to over 100 degrees. How many scientists do you need to sue Al Gore before you believe its fake? A class action lawsuit of over 1000 brilliant minds cannot be wrong. No trust Al Gore instead.

      Forget the fact that wikileaks blew all of this wide open by exposing false reports and manipulations of the real results.

      …..(Trust nobody)

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    • smokeysmoke
      Posted on January 27, 2012 at 1:25am

      remember we were in a MINI ICE AGE when Washington crossed the Deleware river to attack the prussian army on the other side… …. and we have been warming since then…. that is either really scary…. or it means that global warming and cooling is a natural process, and we should be considering how could humans amplify the natural changes in climate…. and well realize that we make little climate changes….. BUT WE CAUSE MASSIVE ECOLOGICAL DESTRUCTION… why are the LIBERAL ECO FACEISTS SO DETERMINED TO TAX AND REGULATE CARBON…

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    • Tower7_TRUTH
      Posted on January 27, 2012 at 5:16am

      HAARP = a giant microwave heating up the leftovers of humanity

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  • sWampy
    Posted on January 26, 2012 at 1:24pm

    Jesus, they are going to screw up tens of billions of seeds when planed somewhere they can’t live, because of their false data. This is right up there with the changed weather models that now predict global warming, but can’t predict the chance of rain accurately till 24 hours after the event has passed.

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    • grannyrecipe
      Posted on January 27, 2012 at 9:25am

      You can be assured, farmers are certainly not going to follow the guidelines of useless bureaucrats. They are going to follow the current weather patterns of any particular year for planting, ground temperature etc…

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  • bigdave54
    Posted on January 26, 2012 at 1:21pm

    OMG, I love the GLOBAL WARMING DEBATE! I have listened to the great ICE MELTING threat around the North Pole but here is the weather for Barrows, AK till the end of the month. http://www.weather.com/weather/5-day/Barrow+AK+USAK0025

    Can someone please tell me how much ice will melt when the high temp. is on -21 for the rest of the month? But wait till summer gets here and the temps reach the 40′s in Barrows, oh wait ice melts when it‘s in the 40’s. Funny how this works! But then I have not heard about the ice melting around the South Pole this year and it’s summer down there!

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    • iblvingd
      Posted on January 26, 2012 at 8:13pm

      We live in a “he said” “she said” society that has become so willing to be brain washed. We love to hate, we love to gossip (spread info generated from non truth), we love to be better than everyone else, we love to covet and want what others have, we are so willing to find fault, we are so willing to put blame (unfounded) we are so in love with ourselves that we can not stand the fact that we could be wrong. We love ourselves more than we love the idea of living in a Free Country.

      So the Elites, Scientists, the UN, George Sorros all the planners of the NWO, have the perfect audience to feed their untruths so they can gain control of America. Believe it! Gulp it Up!

      Eat it up America Believe the Global warming garbage. You are lambs to the slaughter!

      However I opt out….I prefer to fight for our country! ….. I want a new President (not a new cronie one either)….I want to stand with Americans who believe it is worth fighting for!

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    • LadyLibertykicksASS
      Posted on January 27, 2012 at 8:59am

      Back in the 1970′s, The same “scientists” thought we were heading into an Ice Age. They had a Plan to spread black coal dust over the the ice and snow in the Arctic and Antarctic. The sun light would be absorbed and would melt the ice and snow preventing an ICE AGE. Thankfully, before the “Scientists”
      could figure out how to proceed with their STUPIDITY; the Earth began to warm up !!!! Can you imagine how ticked off the polar bears would have been…lol Leave nature alone!!!

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  • commonsenseguy
    Posted on January 26, 2012 at 1:20pm

    a professor at cornell university says the map reflects global warming, wow, who would not believe him after all he is a professor at one of many liberal colleges in america, that is good as it gets,just trust him and the other left wing leaders and every thing will be just hunky dorey ,

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    • barnsy
      Posted on January 26, 2012 at 1:32pm

      The question is…..Will the White House have to buy carbon credits for all the hot air spewing from Obama on a daily basis?

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  • DLKFWBS
    Posted on January 26, 2012 at 1:16pm

    The temperature range in my are is correct with what I have noticed. My only problem is, on the Weather Channel, our temperature station is at our regional airport. The temperatures they have on the TV can be 15 degrees warmer than what my thermometer is reading outside my back door. With all the hot exhaust fumes from the airplanes, of course the temperature is higher! This is a lot more noticeable in Winter temperatures.

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    • From Virginia
      Posted on January 26, 2012 at 9:07pm

      What you are saying is how “they” have manipulated the data. Take temps from locations near airports or other areas were artificial (man-made) constucts give off excess heat as local temps but ignore areas that aren’t affected by same. That’s why the Russians were all up in arms about the Mann report because NONE of their temps were taken to give a planetary average.

      That’s why it always cracks me up when they give the weather temps on the morning radio. Seriously – the thermometer locations are: Dulles (airport); National (airport).

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  • ThePostman
    Posted on January 26, 2012 at 1:15pm

    I wonder why the global alarmists never seem to mention that more crops will grow over more area, thus sustaining man’s need for food in a growing population?

    If CO2 were a greenhouse gas, and we really believed it, we’d be paying the oil companies for their kind act towards mankind.

    This is a cue for the alarmists to return back to their global ice age theorem, so they can continue to push to punish big oil.

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    • commonsenseguy
      Posted on January 26, 2012 at 1:27pm

      hush, don’t give it away,they do not want people to run out and start planting gardens it might hurt the big farming companies,and besides if people quit believing in how bad the earth is melting,then they might just start believing they can survive without assistance from the government,and that would be bad for the left because they need free loading,uneducated minds to continue their destruction of America.

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    • let us prey
      Posted on January 26, 2012 at 1:43pm

      Common
      They are clamping down for the harvest. Oh no.

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    • From Virginia
      Posted on January 26, 2012 at 8:41pm

      According to Ice Age core samples (pulled from glaciers) there was MORE CO2 during the Ice Age than we currently have. Sooooooo, does that support your theory that they should be reverting to Ice Age disaster stuff now?

      Certainly, during the Medieval Warming period it was recorded as a prosperous Land O’Plenty!

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  • Jedidavid
    Posted on January 26, 2012 at 1:10pm

    Maybe y’all can help me out. How is it that they can tell us what global warming is doing and how it will affect everything when they can’t even get a wheather report right?

    The way I see it, there’s always about a 10% chance of rain so there’s about a 10% chance that this b.s. they shove down our throats is true.

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  • CatB
    Posted on January 26, 2012 at 1:09pm

    The old one had 10 or 11 zones .. what is it now with the a‘s and b’s and added zones … the old one worked perfectly well .. this has to be more of the gov’t “agenda” … like the food changes they made a couple of years ago .. trying to gain more control.

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    • objectivetruth
      Posted on January 26, 2012 at 2:36pm

      They actually have always had something like that.Many times it was only shown in color though.The division you see is usually due to other permanent conditions that modify the weather.Bodies of water mountain ranges and even the demarcation line of alberta clippers.[Think Iowa].They added puerto rico to americas map.It used to be part of the growing map of the caribbean.

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  • Smokey_Bojangles
    Posted on January 26, 2012 at 1:05pm

    Everyone knows Republican Fred Flintstone Running around in his foot powered SUV angered Al Gore’s green(green as in $$$?) god and caused the end of the Ice Age.AL’s god is an angry god who will drop the sky upon our heads! The sky Is Falling!

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  • IAMAPARTOFTHE98PERCENT
    Posted on January 26, 2012 at 1:02pm

    Chew on this fact. How much impirical weather data have we collected in relation to age of the earth. It wouldn’t even be one data point is a statistical analysis. It has been proven through the fossil record that the weather on the earth is cyclical in nature. Our weather has more to do with solar activity of the sun than anything man is capable of. The past 3 decades have shown that the earth is cooling not warming. That’s when the Global warming croud changed the language from global warning to climate change. This is a huge scam to make guys like Al Gore rich and control people like you and me.

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    • Smokey_Bojangles
      Posted on January 26, 2012 at 1:21pm

      I Think of it like this. There is not supposed to be a Government sponsored Religion.Yet,Government Sponsors the Man Made Global Warming Faith.It is taught as gospel in our schools.It raises the prices of our fuels with Gov Regulation.It raises the prices of our food with Gov Regulation.Auto mobile prices have risen trying to meet the angry gods requirements.We burn food in our petrol to gum up motors to please this angry god.A Court House can not post the Ten Commandments yet I bet The Majority of them have The Gov.‘s green god’s light bulbs. I Do Not Make enough money to pay Federal taxes to fight radical Islam and I have not been on on airplane in 5years,but I pay local taxes,eat,drive,use power,pay for schools to teach Al Gore’s religion,Use Light Bulbs,water,ETC. Al Gore’s religion does more to effect my life than Radical Islam.We need to bring the troops home to fight Radical Environmentalist ahhaha.They Make Bacon Expensive.Not Muslims.

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  • carolinalockie
    Posted on January 26, 2012 at 12:58pm

    It’s just a plot to sell more seeds, since the first batch will die from frost, and you will have to re-plant.

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  • gr8t2bfree
    Posted on January 26, 2012 at 12:53pm

    This chart means nothing as far as when to plant. Its just an average of temps.The only thing that matters is the last killing frost! If it’s 70 degrees for 3 weeks and then you get a killing frost that wipes out the crop, what good is the chart. Never worked for me!

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    • objectivetruth
      Posted on January 26, 2012 at 2:46pm

      Don’t know where you are or are growing.Understand the problem only too well though.Try row covers wall of water.Can use old bucket fill with water and use clear poly.Cover with blanket [night time only]
      Dig your planting trench deeper than normal.Build up the sides not directly around plants though.This not only helps with cold it also helps cut the wind.I’m assuming you are a gardener and not a farmer.Farmers can break out the big guns so to speak with smudge pots and heaters..If you are a farmer, then please accept my apology in advance for making a fanny of myself with the suggestions.

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  • Turtleman
    Posted on January 26, 2012 at 12:50pm

    Really? I live in Northern Ohio and had to pull plants earlier this year because the frost was earlier than last year. HHHMMM…makes one wonder

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  • goahead.makemyday
    Posted on January 26, 2012 at 12:50pm

    I live in North Florida, when I get up for work at 5 and not have to scrape the ice off my windshield to be able to see then I will possibly consider that the earth is warming up. In case you can’t guess I still have to.

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  • SoupSandwich
    Posted on January 26, 2012 at 12:49pm

    This should make it really clear that they need more revenue for research. Not taxes for poop on toast. Revenue to further research this. Not disputed science entering into fiscal policy. Come on, get in line, shut your pie hole and swallow.

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  • caleejr
    Posted on January 26, 2012 at 12:47pm

    Thank God we have global warming, or half of North America and all of Europe would be under a mile thick slab of glacial ice right now….natural phenomena that has been going on for a LONG Long time

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  • Mandors
    Posted on January 26, 2012 at 12:36pm

    I love how an expert on dirt from Cornell waxes on about climatology. Maybe next time the reporters should get a podiatrist from Yale.

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    • RJJinGadsden
      Posted on January 26, 2012 at 12:42pm

      More likely with a proctologist.

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    • woodyl1011fl
      Posted on January 27, 2012 at 12:54pm

      @RJJinGadsden
      The proctologist will discover that the liberal mind resides there and this is where their heads are all of the time.

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  • vtxphantom
    Posted on January 26, 2012 at 12:34pm

    I take all information coming out of the obama government with a grain of salt. I do my best to verify what they say. The internet can be a great research tool to help support or deny government claims

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  • smithclar3nc3
    Posted on January 26, 2012 at 12:33pm

    WTF is the USDA doing wasteing our tax dollars on pushing climate change when they suppose to be inspecting food for safety. I guess that‘s why we have people dying from poison melons last while they’re researching climate.
    Here’s a clue to the people since the federal government wants to be waste our tax dollars pushing partiusan agenda holds them responsible when people are poisoned melons. After all it they were doing their actual jobs (food safety)those melons wouldn’t have made it to store.
    And the next time some lawyer wants to class action sue a drug manufacturer sued the FDA as they‘re the one’s that approved it for human consumption . The government wants all the control the government assumes all responsibility.

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    • Twobyfour
      Posted on January 26, 2012 at 2:38pm

      smithclar3nc3 “pushing partiusan agenda holds them responsible when people are poisoned melons”

      Green outside, red inside. I always knew these people are poisonous, now you confirm it.

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    • Dismayed Veteran
      Posted on January 26, 2012 at 3:14pm

      The USDA climate map is used by farmers, the military and survivalists.

      If you are preparing for possible bad times ahead, it is always good to know what will and won’t grow in your area.

      If you intend to plant a crop from a seed packet, it is always a good thing to match the climate code on the back of the packet to the climate map.

      I am going to pull the map to see if there are crops I need to eliminate or add to my seed packet collection.

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    • Twobyfour
      Posted on January 26, 2012 at 7:33pm

      Dismayed Veteran, farmers already know what crops grow in their area. At least the decent ones. They don’t need the USDA rainbow o tell them.

      However, people starting their backyard gardens, do use the USDA map. I never did, I asked farmers.

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    • Dismayed Veteran
      Posted on January 27, 2012 at 12:24pm

      @two by four

      I should have clarified what I meant by farmers. I didn’t mean industrial farmers. I meant people like my who are market garden farmers. We grow not only for ourselves but we also sell at the farmers’ market.

      My wife constantly tells me that no one can read my mind. Seems like she is usually correct.

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  • 13th Imam
    Posted on January 26, 2012 at 12:33pm

    Pretty soon the outdoor Maine Potatoe, Patato Farmers will be raising a Real Cash crop. , Climate Change is real, Man-Made Global Warming is a hoax.

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    • Gonzo
      Posted on January 26, 2012 at 12:39pm

      I agree but, I would add that climate change has ALWAYS been real. Since the Earth started spinning on it’s axis.

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    • RJJinGadsden
      Posted on January 26, 2012 at 12:49pm

      I find it hilarious that Discovery, or The History Channel will run a show that points out the theories of how the world has changed so many times through history. To include changes in heating and cooling, and how certain ice ages were eventually melted away in the temperate zones. Then run a show about man made global warming tripe.

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    • 13th Imam
      Posted on January 26, 2012 at 12:58pm

      Try to FOLLOW the TAXPAYERS money. Shut down the moneypit in DC. Send the insider traders home.

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    • Twobyfour
      Posted on January 26, 2012 at 2:42pm

      RJJinGadsden, they rely on a proven fact that liberals are able to hold two contradictory concepts in their… (minds?) at the same time, without any signs of discomfort or pain.

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    • RJJinGadsden
      Posted on January 26, 2012 at 5:44pm

      TWOBYFOUR, LOL, you’ve got that right. But, for the individual who can actually think for themselves it is just plane funny.

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  • Phoneguy
    Posted on January 26, 2012 at 12:32pm

    The USDA is an outdated bunch of librals that protect their own, no farmer likes them.

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  • chips1
    Posted on January 26, 2012 at 12:29pm

    I hope it gets warmer so I can corner the banana market.

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  • Gonzo
    Posted on January 26, 2012 at 12:29pm

    The Earth was heating up and cooling off long before man started using fossil fuels. God has a plan for the Earth He created and Al Gore isn‘t going to change God’s plans.

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    • copatriots
      Posted on January 26, 2012 at 12:51pm

      I always wonder how the global warming crowd explains the Ice Age. Did those darn dinosaurs start driving cars? Or maybe it was their flatulence that made them extinct?

      We are represented by a bunch of idiots!

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  • UBETHECHANGE
    Posted on January 26, 2012 at 12:26pm

    Pure progressive propaganda. We need to clean out all the radicals from the USDA.

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    • smithclar3nc3
      Posted on January 26, 2012 at 12:36pm

      We need to shut down all these agencies and privitize them. These agency work with impunity as you can’t sue the government. Time to either adress the outdated laws or address the draconian government

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  • neiman1
    Posted on January 26, 2012 at 12:20pm

    Crops across Northern California have suffered the last two years from dramatically lower spring and summer temperatures. Crops are being harvested weeks later than normal and yields are down. I notice USDA raised the temperature across Northern California despite every farmer knowing they are wrong.

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