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Think food prices are high now? Climate change could significantly cut production of six staple food crops around the world — including wheat production in Canada, a new study finds. Here's what ...
Flooding rice fields. Crops such as corn, soybeans and wheat are grown in soils that are not very wet. So farmers water them ...
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Umair Irfan is a correspondent at Vox writing about climate change, energy policy, and science. He is also a regular ...
Rising temperatures will significantly reduce global crop yields by 2100, with adaptation measures offering some relief, study finds.
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 ...
Returning year after year (for three to five years), these crops develop root systems three times deeper than annual wheat, accessing water and nutrients unavailable to conventional varieties. This ...
Crop damage intensity — measured as monetised loss per gigawatt-hour (GWh) of electricity generated — for wheat and rice touched up to $17,370/GWh (Rs 15 lakh on February 6, 2025) and $13,420 ...
Many years ago, we used to get water just by digging a few feet below the ground, but now, even 300 feet may not be ...
The high yield per hectare of rice and wheat when compared to pulses and oilseeds, and state procurement at assured prices make them commercially more profitable than other crops. An MSP mechanism ...