Farm Response to Changing Weather

• This brief scientific report examines how changes in extreme weather frequency, intensity, and duration and changes in the growing season are impacting farms in Maine, including strategies farmers can employ to minimize risks. 
• The report includes a number of colorful maps and it can be downloaded as a PDF.
  

Positives

• This report also considers how climate change is impacting the entire United States.
• It highlights the increased risk of frost after the growing season begins, which is something that isn't always discussed.
  

Additional Prerequisites

• Students should know how to read a map.
  
• If you left-click links on the webpage you won't be taken to a new tab.
  

Differentiation

• This report could be used to create free-response questions about how climate change is incentivizing farmers to change their farming methods.
• This report could augment a classroom discussion on why disruptions to the agricultural industry may cause widespread cultural, economic, and political disorder.
• This report could supplement a lesson about what climate change is and how humans are causing it.
• This report could enhance a classroom discussion about how countries should balance climate change adaptation strategies with climate change mitigation strategies.