A Cornell-led study shows that Midwestern agriculture is especially vulnerable to climate change.
Ariel Ortiz-Bobea says the region’s reliance on corn and soybeans could cause challenges in the future.
“In a way it’s like putting all the eggs in the crop basket and that crop basket is becoming more vulnerable to this free input that falls from the sky,” he says.
He tells Brownfield previous studies focused on the vulnerability of field crops, but this study looked at ag production and livestock at the national level.
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