Warm U.S. Winter Could Spur Early Corn Planting and Tree-Killing Beetles

By Deborah Zabarenko WASHINGTON (Reuters) – As much of the United States basks in summer-like temperatures, weather and climate experts said this year’s warm winter could mean early corn planting, a risk of killing frost for apricots and a baby boom for tree-chomping bark beetles in the West. The winter of 2011-12 was the fourth-warmest in the 117-year record, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which uses meteorological winter, which ended on February 29. [More]

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Warm U.S. Winter Could Spur Early Corn Planting and Tree-Killing Beetles