Dramatic increase in research funding needed to counter productivity slowdown in farming
Friday, 14 March 2025 () Ithica NY (SPX) Mar 14, 2025
Climate change and flagging investment in research and development has U.S. agriculture facing its first productivity slowdown in decades. A new study estimates the public sector investment needed to reverse course. In the paper, published March 11 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers model both the dampening effects of climate change on U.S. agriculture and