date:Jun 09, 2013
over-cropping guidelines for growers.
But that alone may not be enough.
Fred Kirchenmann, distinguished fellow at the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture, tells TakePart the conversation about agriculture and climate change must extend beyond the farm.
The biggest challenge is going to be to monoculture farms. When you have a large amount of acreage in a single crop, you need climate favorable to that one crop. When you have diversitydrought may not be good for corn, but millet and sor