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Climate researchers are predicting Indiana will have warmer and wetter, winters and springs in the coming decades. What does that mean for the state’s agriculture sector?
WFHB’s Norm Holy has been exploring this question with Purdue Agronomy Professor Laura Bowling. She is the lead author of a study on the future of agriculture from Purdue’s Climate Change Research Center.
In last week’s conversation, we learned corn yields will likely decline with warming temperatures and changing moisture conditions. This week, Dr. Bowling discusses how those conditions could impact soybeans and livestock.
Dr. Bowling’s study is just one of many that comprise the Indiana Climate Change Impacts Assessment, which you can access online at purdue [dot] edu [slash] indiana climate.
