Hotter Fields, Lower Yields: How Global Warming Could Hurt America's Farms

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Climate changes since 1981 have already cost corn growers worldwide about $1.2 billion per year. A recent study by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the Carnegie Institution found that combined changes in temperature and precipitation since 1981 resulted in lower yields in corn and other crops, leading to wasted productivity and lost revenue.

Unfortunately, these trends in climatic changes are only expected to worsen unless global warming pollution declines substantially in coming years.

Based on a recent U.S. government assessment, this report estimates that global warming will cost corn growers in the United States at least another $1.4 billion per year in the future, as temperatures increase.

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