New Report!
A new report on farmer perspectives on climate and agriculture, gathered in a 2012 survey of nearly 5000 farmers from 11 Corn Belt states, presents survey results by watershed. The survey was conducted in partnership with the Useful to Usable (U2U) project (www.AgClimate4U.org), another USDA-funded climate and agriculture project. The watersheds that were surveyed account for more than half of all US corn and soybean production. Farmers selected for the survey were those who grew corn and who had more than $100,000 in gross farm income in 2011; these larger-scale farmers cultivate approximately 80 percent of the farmland in the region.
The farmer survey data have been compiled in a “statistical atlas” that contains tables that present the data and maps that show the geographical distribution of survey results across the Corn Belt. Data presented include:
- Beliefs about climate change
- Attitudes toward potential climate change adaptation and mitigation actions
- Concerns about climate-related threats to farm operations
- Perceived capacity to deal with the predicted impacts of climate change
- Recent experience with extreme weather events
The report titled: “Farmer Perspectives on Agriculture and Weather Variability in the Corn Belt: A Statistical Atlas” is a new publication of the Climate and Corn-based Cropping Systems Coordinated Agricultural Project (CSCAP) and is available online at https://sustainablecorn.org/What_Farmers_are_Saying/Index.html.
