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Wildfires and Climate Change Affect Oregon Grape Growers

By Pam Knox
 
If you have been following the news, you can’t help but notice all of the stories about the wildfires out west. You may be wondering how grape growers there are doing. Here is a recent story from one Oregon grape grower about what they are seeing this year and how changing climate over time has affected the life cycles of their vines and crops. You can view it at Oregon Live here.
 
Source: Ray Isle, Food & Wine
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It's summertime in Minnesota as a yellow Air Tractor agricultural application aircraft -- a crop duster -- responds to the control inputs of its pilot in a low-altitude dance just above the tops of the cornstalks. Enjoy! And we found a Bell 206 Long Ranger spray helicopter perched on a support truck at the edge of the cornfields, and launching from there. In our video, you can occasionally hear the rotor sounds of the crop-dusting helicopter as we see the yellow Air Tractor in a nearby field.