Climate change and the family farm

Star Tribune: The news from this Midwestern farm is not good. The past four years of heavy rains and flash flooding here in southern Minnesota have left me worried about the future of agriculture in America's grain belt. For some time, computer models of climate change have been predicting just these kinds of weather patterns, but seeing them unfold on our farm has been harrowing. My family and I produce vegetables, hay and grain on 250 acres in one of the richest agricultural areas in the world. While our......

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