“Like the atom does not get a break.

This year is a different story.

Throughout the summer, he was exploring the leaves of brown, wilt or corn ears with missing, and now it is clear that every nucleus would calculate this harvest. He said: “It is almost frustrated going out there and looking at it and saying,” Oh yes, it seems bad. ”

Through major corn transplantation, climate change is the conditions that make watching corn grow a dispute of farmers. Factors like constantly High summer temperatures overnightand Drought and rain heavier than usual At the wrong time, all of the pollination of plants can be disrupted – which makes every whole ear of the atom than a guarantee and more than gambling.

In general, corn farmers are lucky this year with the weather in the late season, which contributed to what is now expected to be a record crop. But experts say that harsh weather attacks intensify the waiting game during a decisive period of the year between agriculture and harvesting.

The climate changed by man has caused severe heat events in the United States this year, and it has increased steadily from the possibility of more hot temperatures overnight since 1970, According to the central climateA separate group of scientists who transfer climate and data to the public.

“Also hot nights, like the atom, never get a break. It’s hot all the time,” Rennd said. “I know he is wearing me.”

How excessive heat can rain affect the atom

With the growth of the corn plant, it shows the leaves to detect the troops, which is the part that casts pollen, Mark Licht, Associate Professor in Agriculture and Specialist of Counseling Systems at Iowa State University. If the plant increases very quickly, which can happen when the atmosphere is very hot, the drink may be tightly wrapped, which means release fewer pollen.

Which can lead to incomplete ears of corn. The cover of a tight tightness in pockets has been reported across parts of the Middle West and the plains, according to some Agricultural trade publication Reports During the growth season. He said Licht It has never been unprecedented in the problems of crushing once before In twenty years of age as an agricultural student.

It can be high temperatures Emphasizing the atom in other waysReducing pollen production, reducing pollen or drying other parts of the plants, which reduces fertility. “I think any of the vaccination issues that we might face more because the nights were very warm,” said Larry Walton, who was approaching Rinandan in southwest Michigan, where many farmers were in a dry area.

“We tend to see vaccination issues more problematic when we have high temperatures, dehydration conditions or rain,” said Licht. However, Iowa had a lot of rain and still see some vaccination problems. Excessive It can cause Corn To grow on the ears.

He said that farmers should pay more attention to this because “there is more changing weather.”

In general, the “monster” is expected despite the difficult weather conditions

This winter, American dry screen Drought was mentioned in nearly 60 % of corn production areas in the Middle West. Brad Rebi, meteorologist at the US Department of Agriculture, said that near or above normal rain is almost everywhere east of Rocky this summer, it reached only 3 % in the beginning of August.

This, along with the consistent heat, means that “we expect the corn crop in the United States in 2025,” said Rebi.

But it was not easy for everyone. “This may have been one of the most difficult seasons that I have gone through in my career,” said Philip Jude, a farmer in McCond, Mississippi and Chairman of the United Soy’s Council. The corn and soybeans were planted 60 days after the specified date because it fell almost every day for two months.

They said Jude, they lost some fertilizers and some plants died in permanent waters, but they compensated with some lucky weather later this season.

Ribi said: “The rain falls in heavier gunshots.” He said this could be a problem for farmers because even when it does not cause flash floods, moisture does not necessarily leak into the soil. He runs and holds fertilizers with it, which is a problem River health And farmers Pocket books.

The trend towards Top levels of humidity and The warmer ocean temperaturesRebi added that contributing to the hottest nights can be a greater problem in the future, which puts pressure on crops such as corn and soybeans.

The climate volatility adds tension to a critical time to farmers

Late summer is the time to make or break the farmers: they are trying to measure the amount of what they will get from the year of the year and plan their next steps, and the incomplete vaccination does not help.

“We would like to upgrade a tractor … or maybe we are trying to pick up more land,” Rennd said. “It is difficult to want to do these things when you have a bad year like this.”

Nicole Ricci, an agent of extension of the Michigan State University, who helps Walton and Rennd, said that the unconfirmed vaccination is in its worst, if it is 15 % to 25 % of each ear of the atom does not contain a nucleus, as this may mean a great loss in the return on a large field.

Jason Cope participated in the establishment of a agricultural technology company called PowerPollenn, whose mechanical equipment can collect pollen and then pollute future crops. He said that due to the severe weather events, the number of “rescue” vaccination functions they made to customers – to save the fields that were not naturally received naturally – has almost doubled since they started in 2018.

Walton said that he can manage as long as vaccination issues do not become very bad.

He added: “You learn to roll with the stress part, because you can not control most of it anyway.”

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