CNN Climate Correspondent Bill Weir spoke with Faith Farms & Climate Farmers, Justin Jordan and Ray Gaesser.
“Justin Jordan strolls through his field of stunted cornstalks in Lacona, Iowa. “I’m looking at probably a 20-to-30% drop in yield just from the poor spring we had,” he says. Normally, he plants his corn in mid-April, but freakish weather kept him waiting until mid-May, and just as the last seed was planted, it began raining. For two weeks.Still, he was spared the levee-bursting flooding that put hundreds of farms underwater, so he counts himself among the lucky.”I’ll be able to plant next year,” Jordan says. “Some of those guys, those fields are so damaged that they’re talking two, three years before they’re back in the fields planting again.”
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