Soil quality critical to help some US crops weather heat stress from climate change

Image credit: Unsplash / CC0 Public Domain. Article by Carol Clark, Emory University. Phys.org – July 12, 2022.

The capacity of soil to hold water will be critical to determine how well farms in some regions of the United States manage the problem of prolonged heat stress due to climate change, a new study suggests. The journal Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems published the finding, based on analyses of 30 years of data on four major U.S. crops—corn, soybeans, cotton and wheat. […]

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