"If the climate warms by 3 degrees, that's basically like everyone on the planet giving up breakfast." Farmers struggle as key crops become harder to grow across the globe: 'Agricultural outcomes ...

Umair Irfan is a correspondent at Vox writing about climate change, energy policy, and science. He is also a regular contributor to the radio program Science Friday. Prior to Vox, he was a reporter ...

Flooding rice fields. Crops such as corn, soybeans and wheat are grown in soils that are not very wet. So farmers water them to make sure the plants get the nutrients they need to grow, but never ...

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The region's states produce most of the U.S.-grown crop of hard red winter wheat, favored by bakers for bread. But with prices hovering around $5 per bushel, U.S. wheat farmers have reached an ...

Last year, coming into March and early April, the drought index was improving, but this year, conditions are worsening as the wheat crop is breaking dormancy and starting reproductive growth.

Crops such as corn, soybeans and wheat are grown in soils that are not very wet. So farmers water them to make sure the plants get the nutrients they need to grow, but never enough to fully flood ...