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Farmers need to adapt crops to climate change to stay profitable, experts say

by Sabri Ben-Achour
Oct 20, 2020
Climate change has arrived in American agriculture, and it could cause profits to drop 30% over the next 30 to 50 years.
Workers harvest zucchini on a farm in Florida City, Florida, in April. Climate change is shifting which crops farmers can grow — and when they can grow them.
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In the flooded farm belt, a race against the clock for planting

by Renata Sago
Jun 7, 2019
Growers are racing to plant corn, soybeans and wheat before it's too late.
Water pools in rain-soaked farm fields on May 29 near Gardner, Illinois.
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Retaliatory tariffs could be a boon for U.S. food banks

by Bret Jaspers
Oct 24, 2018
Some crops from U.S. farmers losing money from a trade spat with China will be redirected to food banks across the country.
Volunteers sort pears at a San Francisco food bank in 2017.
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China slows GMO crop exports from U.S.

by Annie Baxter
Apr 5, 2017
Regulators in China are slowing the pace of approving genetically modified crop varieties grown by U.S. producers. Those are crops engineered to resist things like bugs and weedkillers. China is the largest export market for genetically modified soybeans from the U.S, and folks with ties to U.S. agriculture are worried the slower pace of approvals […]
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Large companies stoke the fires in Indonesia’s peatlands

by Kai Ryssdal and Robert Garrova
Nov 5, 2015
Vegetation has been cleared by burning for years, but now it’s out of control.
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Final Note

A scary season for pumpkins

by Kai Ryssdal
Oct 7, 2015
Also, let's stop with the whole pumpkin spice craze.
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The environmental cost of corn

by Dan Weissmann
Apr 6, 2015
Plowing more land for corn means a bigger carbon footprint.
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In Iowa, big corn crop presents a problem

by Dan Weissmann
Sep 18, 2014
A record corn crop, paradoxically, means hard times for farmers.
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How too much corn spells trouble far beyond the fields

by Paddy Hirsch
Aug 26, 2014
Corn production could hit a record high this year and that's an issue.
Corn is displayed for judging at the Iowa State Fair on August 6, 2014 in Des Moines, Iowa.
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As waters rise, Mekong rice farmers switch to shrimp

by Christopher Johnson
Aug 21, 2014
Salinization of the Mekong Delta is pushing a move toward a new crop: shrimp.
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