Investigating the Impacts of Climate Change onOhio Agriculture and Forests

Agriculture is Ohio’s number one industry, encompassing more than 14 million acres of farmland and providing more than $5 billion worth of crops every year. But if predictions come true and climate change continues, the associated rising temperatures could seriously affect all aspects of agriculture: the types of crops farmers plant, when and where crops are planted, and the policies that will be needed to manage agriculture in harmony with environmental protection needs.

For the last 15 years, writing those environmental policies and helping the farming community understand and adjust to them has been the focus of Dr. Brent Sohngen, Professor at Ohio State University’s Department of Agricultural, Environmental, and Development Economics.