A study in Nature Climate Change concluded that a 1 degree C temperature increase will
cause wheat yields to decrease by about five percent, and a French study found higher temperatures negatively affected corn crops.
Not exact matches
The Great Plains and the Midwestern part of the United States have experienced extremely cold temperatures during the early spring as that is
causing some concerns on crop
yields as I do think
wheat prices could test the $ 5 level possibly in next week's trade.
The high overall activity of resistance genes did not
cause any negative effects for the development of the
wheat or its
yield.
The heat would also
cause staple crops to suffer dramatic
yield losses across the globe (it is possible that Indian
wheat and U.S. corn could plummet by as much as 60 percent), this at a time when demand will be surging due to population growth and a growing demand for meat.
To better assess how climate change
caused by human greenhouse gas emissions will likely impact
wheat, maize and soybean, an international team of scientists now ran an unprecedentedly comprehensive set of computer simulations of US crop
yields.