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Science continues to project a negative impact from climate change on crops. An ecologist with the University of Illinois tells Brownfield markets don’t support the strategy of farmers’ increasing crop diversity, but it’s a good idea, “Not only having corn and soybean; thinking about winter annual crops; thinking about perennials; thinking about how to grow crops with different, functional characteristics so that they can deal with extreme weather in different ways.

Adam Davis, a USDA-Agricultural Research Service ecologist, says he and the great majority of the science community have high confidence in climate change models which are based on the amount of change in the global atmosphere over the past 40 years. 

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