{"id":5590,"date":"2012-02-27T05:37:39","date_gmt":"2012-02-27T10:37:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=5590"},"modified":"2012-02-27T08:52:10","modified_gmt":"2012-02-27T13:52:10","slug":"morning-read-ag-experts-say-regions-farms-must-prep-for-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2012\/02\/27\/morning-read-ag-experts-say-regions-farms-must-prep-for-climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Read:  Ag experts say region&#8217;s farms must prep for climate change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While politicians dither over climate change, a growing number of experts in fields like engineering, public planning, and agriculture are preparing for what they view as an inevitably changed planet.<\/p>\n<p>That view was shared again on Friday by an expert from Monsanto, who spoke at a USDA conference in Washington, according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.watertowndailytimes.com\/article\/20120226\/NEWS02\/702269808\">Watertown Daily Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[T]he change isn\u2019t that far away. Surface warming  in the Northern Hemisphere has accelerated since the late 1960s,  equivalent to moving Earth a million miles closer to the sun, said David  Gustafson, senior fellow for water quality and agricultural  sustainability with the Monsanto Co.\u00a0 Prospects for lessening the global warming effect are increasingly dim, Mr. Gustafson said. \u201cAgriculture will, in fact, be forced to deal,\u201d he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Change could affect the North Country&#8217;s dairy interesting in particular, writes the Times&#8217; Mark Heller.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In New York, the trend toward warmer conditions could cost the state  part of its advantage in the dairy industry: cool weather. Cows begin to  experience heat stress when temperatures reach the mid-70s, and  production suffers sharply as readings reach into the 80s and 90s.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDairy  farmers could adapt to this by renovating barns with better cooling  systems, but these costs would have to be weighed against potential  risks and benefits,\u201d wrote David W. Wolfe, a professor at Cornell  University, Ithaca, in a paper on climate change and Northeast  agriculture.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.watertowndailytimes.com\/article\/20120226\/NEWS02\/702269808\">Read the full article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While politicians dither over climate change, a growing number of experts in fields like engineering, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[1420,4797],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5590"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5590"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5591,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5590\/revisions\/5591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}