‘Climate change is definitely here:’ Local farms struggle to adapt to extreme weather
read more…: ‘Climate change is definitely here:’ Local farms struggle to adapt to extreme weather“We are seeing more four-inch rain events which are extremely difficult to manage, and so that causes erosion, flooding, standing water in fields. It can really affect a farmer’s ability to get a tractor out in the field, to cut hay,” said Olivia Saunders, a field specialist in fruit and vegetable production in the UNH Cooperative Extension Food & Agriculture Program.