Source: Dan Nosowitz, MODERN FARMER, 3/1/18


It's hard to understate California's agricultural significance: On just 1.2 percent of U.S. farmland, California produces more than a third of the country's vegetables and about two-thirds of its fruits and nuts. The Golden State is also the nation's top producer of avocados, grapes, strawberries, and lemons, among other fruit. A new study from researchers at the University of California's Davis and Merced campuses takes a broad look at how climate change will affect the country's most important agricultural state, and the results are alarming.

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