The cost of produce in the U.S. is continuing to rise as crops dwindle from increasing levels of climate change.
climate disaster events, resulting in over $1 billion in losses in each instance“Every year the farmers who feed our nation get smarter and more resilient, but it’s increasingly stressful to adapt to the extreme variability they face,” Erica Kistner-Thomas, with the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture, told. She added, “One year they’ll have the best year ever and then the next year they’ll be hit with a major flooding event or drought.
Paul Mitchell, a professor of agriculture and applied economics at the University of Wisconsin, Madison told the outlet although “crops are more resilient to dry weather than they were 20 years ago,” as the events devastating crops become more frequent, crops won’t be able to adapt quickly enough.“U.S.
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