Grist: Desiccated corn and sun-scorched soybeans have been in high supply lately - and we`re paying through the nose for them.
The federal government forked out a record-breaking $17.3 billion last year to compensate farmers for weather-related crop losses - more than four times the annual average over the last decade.
The losses were mostly caused by droughts, high temperatures, and hot winds - the sizzling harbingers of a climate in rapid flux.
Could some of these costs have been avoided? The...