A recent study published by University of Illinois scientists looked at how farmers plan their field work for different times of year and how their scheduling is likely to change under a warmer, more variable climate. While the study looked specifically at Illinois producers, it shows that thinking about how to manage your farm schedules in the future could be significantly different than what you do now. It’s not an easy problem to solve, because you have to weigh how differences in rainfall might affect both ability to get into the fields and germination and pollination of crops, while temperature increases might affect when seed needs to go into the ground. You can read more about it in Modern Farmer here.
