[Lack of global warming hits corn in the US and wheat in Argentina] - Bloomberg.com

Sept. 29 (Bloomberg) -- Corn, little changed, may advance as the U.S. harvest fell behind the pace of recent years because planting delays in May and below-normal temperatures in July and August slowed crop development.
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A wave of cold weather in Argentina is likely to damage wheat crops as they begin to flower, Tomas Parenti, an agricultural engineer and member of the Rosario Cereal Exchange’s scientific team, said yesterday.

Ad Week Climate Change [Fraud Promotion] Symposium: Hope? - PSFK

Last Wednesday I attended Ad Week’s Climate Change Symposium. Here, the world of NYC advertising shared with the audience that it has found its niche within the climate change agenda, which is to engage ‘consumers’ and ‘internal stakeholders’ in a movement that in turn will activate policy and drive global agreements. I like it; it’s absolutely true that climate change and environment has lacked marketing ingenuity, a compelling story and the vision to generate advocacy and influence on change from the people and a continued movement of change on the ground. So there I was in the room with the Big Ad folks and their clients.
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I do applaud Coke for taking on Copenhagen messages so visibly and quickly at this stage...

Despite sunny weather, cool nights hit Ark. cotton

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Several days of sun has begun drying out the soggy Arkansas cotton crop, but cool nights are preventing many plants from maturing and giving growers yet another headache in a miserable year.

"This is a mess," Cooperative Extension Service economist Scott Stiles said Monday.

First frost warning comes at time when corn crop is lagging behind maturity

With less than half of Nebraska's corn crop mature and running 10 days behind the normal maturity level, a frost warning was the last thing farmers wanted to hear.

But they heard it Monday as the National Weather Service in Hastings said clear skies and light winds Monday night into early Tuesday morning were expected to drop temperatures into the middle 30s by sunrise this morning.