Crop switching and relocation of crop production to different states could prevent up to half of predicted losses in agricultural profits from climate change impacts according to new research conducted by the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics and Political Science published in Nature Communications . The research applied a new approach to barley, corn, cotton, soybeans, rice, and wheat crops to estimate the economic potential of crop reallocation in the United States over the next 50 years. It found that if crop locations are held constant in the future, total agriculture profits for the six crops will drop by 31%. Changing profits over time However, if crop lands are reallocated to avoid yield decreases, and to take advantage of yield increases, half of these losses are avoided. In order to avoid these losses, 57% of counties in the United […]