Extreme Weather Impacts from the Midwest Hub Region
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Managing Risk of Field and Equipment Fires in the Midwest
Explore resources for minimizing the risk of field and equipment fires during harvest.
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Vulnerability Assessments of U.S. Agriculture and Forests (2018)
Two special issues in the journal Climatic Change feature vulnerability assessments of agriculture and forestry across the Nation.
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$1.5 Million Awarded to Midwest Hub, Ohio State, and Extension Partners to Promote Climate-Smart Agriculture
This award is part of an initiative by the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative to fund climate research and bolster the connections between Extension and USDA’s regional Climate Hubs.
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Understanding La Niña Conditions Going Into the Winter Season
The La Niña climate pattern that is currently developing in the eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean provides some general predictable outlooks for the coming winter and early spring. A set of two-page,…
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Landowner Forest Climate and Action Scorecards
Forest Climate and Action Scorecards are designed to help private landowners consider the climate change in the context of their woods.
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Adapting outdoor recreation to climate change
Climate change will alter the dynamics of outdoor recreation and the infrastructure that supports it in a number of ways, climate adaptation strategies and approaches can help managers thoughtfully…
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Climate Adaptation Tools for Wetland Conservation and Management
Wetlands are natural ecosystems that are inherently vulnerable to climate change impacts. The vulnerability of a wetland to regional climate changes is influenced by local characteristics such as…
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Midwest U.S. Climate Resiliency Toolkit
Increasing humidity and precipitation and rising extreme temperatures are having negative impacts across the Midwest. Integrating climate adaptation into planning processes can help build adaptive…
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Stress and Crisis Resources in the Midwest
Farming can be a challenging occupation in the Midwest. In response to the growing concern of stress experienced by producers and ranchers, the Midwest Climate Hub has consolidated resources to be…
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Preparing for Disaster in the Midwest: The Land of Extremes
USDA Climate Hubs work to provide region-specific information, with USDA agencies and partners, to producers and natural resource managers that enable robust and healthy ecosystems before, during and…
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Storms and Stream-Crossings
Stream-crossings have a lower risk of failure if designed appropriately for the stream, and with consideration of current and future regional climate conditions. Careful evaluation of structure size…
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Re-carbonizing Row Crop Farms
Natural Resources Specialist, Justin Mount, is improving producers’ understanding of crop system planning tools, specifically the Integrated Erosion Tool (IET). The IET is a web-served, geospatial,…