While U.S. agriculture and resource management have long histories of successful adaptation to climate variability, the accelerating pace and intensity of climate change presents new challenges to be addressed, according to a comprehensive report released by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) last month. Updated every five years by congressional mandate, the technical report, entitled “Climate Change and Agriculture: Effects and Adaptation,” synthesizes the scientific literature on climate change effects and adaptation strategies for U.S. agriculture.
The 2013 report and its findings are the focus of the USDA-Agricultural Research Service’s Northern Plains Agricultural Research Laboratory (NPARL) latest BrownBagger presentation set for this Friday, March 22, from noon to 1 pm. It features NPARL Insect Ecologist Robert Srygley, a contributing author on the report.
During his presentation, entitled “U.S. Agriculture in a Changing Climate,” Dr. Srygley will share his insights into the report and discuss changes in temperature and precipitation that are predicted to occur this century in the U.S. He will highlight effects of climate change on wheat and other commodities and discuss the report’s findings on the effects of climate change on agricultural pest insects.
The event is open to the public, so please join us this Friday at noon in NPARL’s Technology Transfer Room for this insight into our changing climate and its agricultural impacts.
NPARL’s 2013 BrownBagger series is held in the lab’s Tech Transfer Room on Fridays, from noon to 1 p.m. The lab is located at 1500 N. Central Avenue in Sidney, MT.
Our final presentation in this year’s BrownBagger series is:
Friday, April 5: Upendra Sainju, NPARL Soil Scientist; “Life-cycle assessment of dryland greenhouse gas emissions affected by cropping sequence and nitrogen fertilization”
For more information, contact Beth Redlin at 406-433-9427.
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