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How will crops fare under climate change?
2013-08-21 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
SPX: Under the hotter, wetter conditions projected by the climate scenarios they used, the empirical model estimated that maize production could drop by 3.6 percent, while wheat output could increase by 6.2 percent. Meanwhile, the mechanistic model calculated that maize and wheat yields might go up by 6.5 and 15.2 percent, respectively. The damage scientists expect climate change to do to crop yields can differ greatly depending on which type of model was used to make those projections, according to...
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Unmanned helicopter to help farmers protect crops
2013-08-21 08:13:13| Agriculture - Topix.net
The newly debuted electronic mini-helicopter may look like a child's toy, but folks in the agriculture industry say it's much more; they believe it could change the future of farming.
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How Will Crops Fare Under Climate Change? Depends On How You Ask
2013-08-16 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: The damage scientists expect climate change to do to crop yields can differ greatly depending on which type of model was used to make those projections, according to research based at Princeton University. The problem is that the most dire scenarios can loom large in the minds of the public and policymakers, yet neither audience is usually aware of how the model itself influenced the outcome, the researchers said. The report in the journal Global Change Biology is one of the first to compare the...
Ancient climate change picked the crops we eat today
2013-08-16 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New Scientist: Thank climate change for our daily bread. High levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere after the last ice age drove us to cultivate wheat. Farming arose in the Fertile Crescent in the Middle East 10,000 years ago. Over the next two millennia, people all over the world took up the practice. This suggests that some global event triggered this simultaneous development. A spike in atmospheric CO2 seen after the last ice age has been put forward as the culprit - the gas was released from the...
Will Corn and Soybean Crops Reach Maturity?
2013-08-16 02:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
US - Late planting and cooler-than-normal temperatures continuing into August have many wondering if the corn and soybean crops will reach maturity and harvest moisture within a reasonable time this fall.
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