For Soybean Growers, Hidden Cost of Climate Change Tops $11 Billion
Monday, March 30, 2015 - 15:30
in Earth & Climate
Even during a good year, soybean farmers nationwide are, in essence, taking a loss. That's because changes in weather patterns have been eating into their profits and taking quite a bite: $11 billion over the past 20 years, according to a study by University of Wisconsin-Madison agronomists published last month in Nature Plants.