{"id":493,"date":"2020-02-07T16:34:26","date_gmt":"2020-02-07T16:34:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/indiana-state-climate\/?p=493"},"modified":"2020-02-07T16:36:37","modified_gmt":"2020-02-07T16:36:37","slug":"indiana-state-climate-office-at-infbcon-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/indiana-state-climate\/indiana-state-climate-office-at-infbcon-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Indiana State Climate Office at INFBCON 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>December 13, 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Annual Indiana Farm Bureau Conference (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.infarmbureau.org\/events\/details\/2019\/12\/12\/infb\/INFBCON\" target=\"_blank\">Annual Indiana Farm Bureau Conference<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Indiana State Climate Office (IN-SCO) partnered with the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Purdue Climate Change Research Center (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/climate\/\" target=\"_blank\">Purdue Climate Change Research Center<\/a> and the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"USDA Midwest Climate Hub (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.climatehubs.usda.gov\/hubs\/midwest\" target=\"_blank\">USDA Midwest Climate Hub<\/a> to co-host a panel session on \u201cBuilding Resilience to Changing Weather\u201d.&nbsp; Planting decisions, fertilizer application, seed varieties, equipment investments, harvest timing \u2026 these are all affected by changing weather patterns across Indiana.&nbsp; This session took a look at long-term weather trends (presentation is in Google Folder), possible future impacts, and management strategies to help producers stay productive in a variable climate.&nbsp; The farmer discussion panel featured Jennie Hodgen (AgrInstitute), Ben Wicker (Director, Indiana Agriculture Nutrient Alliance), Tom McKinney (President, McKinney &amp; McKinney farms), and Jesse Uebelhor (Superior Ag Resource).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the Innovation Showcase, the IN-SCO participated in the presentation of multiple ways in which weather and field operations could be observed through the use of drone technology, being a volunteer observer for the Community Collaborative Rain, Hail, and Snow (<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"CoCoRaHS  (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cocorahs.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">CoCoRaHS<\/a>) network, and encouraging the growth of an Indiana mesonet (network of weather observation sites around the state co-managed and operated by Purdue University and Indiana University. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Indiana State Climate Office (IN-SCO) partnered with the Purdue Climate Change Research Center (https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/climate\/) and the USDA Midwest Climate Hub (https:\/\/www.climatehubs.usda.gov\/hubs\/midwest) to co-host a panel session on \u201cBuilding Resilience to Changing Weather\u201d at the Indiana Farm Bureau Conference of 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":495,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[11,9,10,12,13],"class_list":["post-493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-travel-and-presentations","tag-11","tag-indiana-farm-bureau","tag-indiana-state-climate-office","tag-purdue-climate-change-research-center","tag-usda-midwest-climate-hub"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/indiana-state-climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/indiana-state-climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/indiana-state-climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/indiana-state-climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/indiana-state-climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=493"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/indiana-state-climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":499,"href":"https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/indiana-state-climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493\/revisions\/499"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/indiana-state-climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/indiana-state-climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/indiana-state-climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/indiana-state-climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}