weather: prospects & policy elwynn taylor agronomist climatologist

Weather: Prospects & Policy

Elwynn TaylorAgronomist Climatologist

When Agriculture Failsthe

Culture Dies

• Without Agriculture we would have no culture at all.

I was NOT born in Iowa

• But I got here as quickly as I could.

I was NOT born in Iowa

• But I got here as quickly as I could.

I was NOT born in Iowa

• But I got here as quickly as I could.• I came by way of Alabama– I have lived in the 2 places where the World’s

Greatest Agronomist lived: Alabama & Iowa.– Some remember him for the Sweet Potato, some

for Pea Nuts, some for single-handedly saving the agricultural economy of the Southern USA.

– But I remember…

George Washington Carver

• “Every man owes it to himself to leave the soil better than he found it.”

• “The measure of success is, simply, service.”

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• Whatley spent $1M+ to improve the Carver Sweet Potato.

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Small Farm, Big Return

• Urban youth must see a farm, pick collards…• 5 Acres with hard-top to the city, living standard of

school teachers. Booker T. Whatley

• The 25 acre farm, every acre returning

$3,000.00– Year-round, daily cash flow.– Pick-your-own.– 1000 member club at $25/year– Hard-surface road to 50,000 pop city within 40 mi.– Grow what sells– Weatherproof (irrigation, shelter, information)– Insurance ( Farm Bureau $1M liability)

Urban Ag Academy

• The most important resource to the Urban community is the supporting foundation of Ag

• The most important resource to the Ag community is the Urban vote

• Education is essential to understanding

Weather• The Vicious Cycle --- breaking it will take us ALL

The VICIOUS CYCLE

Population

Agriculture

Climate

Who will BREAK the CYCLE ?

• Feb 8th special session of congress

50th Anniversary Year• Conservation (better insulation, etc.) helped• Renewable Fuel can be the answer

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A Horse, A Wagon, 1/3 acre, 6 hens & 1 Rooster

It took more land to produce fuel for my “hay burner” than to grow food for us .

stable period 2 stable period 3 stable period 4

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Drought

El Niño

El Niño: S CA winter rain, Midwest good crops, MT fire, Gulf Coast few tropical storms.