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Are we underestimating the risk of extreme weather in the wheat belt?

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“Growing wheat is getting harder in a warming world,” was the headline of a story I came across the first week of June. Needless to say, with dismal wheat crops in both Oklahoma and Kansas thanks to the drought, this definitely caught my eye. The article referenced a new study published recently in the journal NPJ Climate and Atmospheric Science that suggested heat waves and tempe...

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