About 175,000 farms produce more than $21-billion a year in food, hay, and flowers in the Northeast, according to the USDA. But with this summer’s dry weather, many fields across New England are severely dry and there are extreme drought conditions in parts of Massachusetts and southern New Hampshire. The dry conditions, and the changing climate, has many farmers thinking about how to manage soil, water, and land in the future.
In a story by New England Public Radio titled “Farming, Soil And Water, In The Time Of Climate Change,” reporter Jill Kaufman talked to soil and crop researcher Masoud Hashemi at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
