The Corn Belt will get hotter. Farmers will have to adapt.

Grist
By John McCrackenSep 23, 2022, 10:45 am145 pts
The corn on Zack Smith’s 1,200 acres is not his future. Smith, a fifth-generation farmer working the land near Buffalo Center, Iowa, a town of almost 900 near the Minnesota border, knows the climate is changing and, in the future, it will be too hot and dry for a crop like corn. Researchers predict that by…

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