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Report: Farming riskier with fewer field days
A University of Illinois study on climate change says the typical planting window for corn – April and May – could become too wet to work in fields in most parts of Illinois and mid-summer will be increasingly dry. Adam Davis, a USDA/ARS ecologist with the university tells Brownfield Ag News the study considered three climate scenarios: low, medium and high, “The high one is the one where you really have the problem where the mid-summer drought severity is so high, you’re going to have to potentially change even what types of crops you’re growing.”
Davis tells Brownfield farmers might have to switch to drought tolerant crops like sorghum, under those conditions.
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