Climate Change Affects U.S. Agriculture and Rural Communities Climate change presents real threats to U.S. agricultural production, forest resources, and rural economies. Producers and land managers across the country are experiencing climate impacts on their operations through shifting weather patterns and increasingly frequent and severe storms, floods, drought, and wildfire.
WESTHAMPTON For more than 45 years, Bridgmont Farms in Westhampton has been in the business of maple syrup production. For decades, maple sugar was ideal for farms like Bridgmont to produce in early spring, when the animals still are indoors and the.