Adapting to climate change
Climate change could also put the world's crucial cereal crops at risk in the coming decades. “We are seeing deviations from the normal temperature much more frequently than in the past,” says Byron Richard, a U.S. wheat farmer planting tens of thousands of acres in Belfield, North Dakota. Elsewhere, the concern is a lack of rain. “Dry periods seem to last longer today than they used to,” says Christoph Büren, a cereal farmer with over 1,000 acres in the Marne region of France.