In the Southeast, agricultural producers have started to add new crops to the mix of traditional commodity and specialty crops as the climate and the markets have been changing. Some of those crops include cold-hardy citrus in Georgia and Alabama, olives, and pomegranates. Here is an interesting story in National Geographic about how the warming climate is contributing to crop changes in Sicily, which has changed from a Mediterranean climate to something more tropical. Farmers are adapting by planting new crops there, switching from olives to papayas.
