Volatile weather around the world is taking farmers on a wild ride. Too much rain in northern China damaged crops in May, three years after too little rain turned the world’s second-biggest corn producer into a net importer of the grain. Dry weather in the U.S. will cut beef output from the world’s biggest producer to the lowest level since 1994, following 2013’s bumper corn crop, which pushed America’s inventory up 30 percent. U.K. farmers couldn’t plant in muddy fields after the second-wettest year on record in 2012 dented the nation’s wheat production. Graphic: Living With Extreme Weather “ Extreme weather events are a massive risk to agriculture,” said Peter Kendall, president of the U.K. National Farmers Union , who raises 1,600 hectares (3,953 acres) of grain crops in Bedfordshire, England . “Farmers can adapt to gradual temperature increases, but extreme weather events have the potential […]