Small farmers often pay a high price when agricultural commerce gets hit by extreme weather
Justin Ralph estimates he has made about 200 trips delivering grain from the fields he farms with his brother and uncle this year. They were accustomed to using their four semi-trucks to take the harvest from a total of about 800 acres each of corn, soybeans, and wheat to market. What they were not used to are the distances they had to drive the past couple years, a consequence of bad weather that was only expected to increase in their area as a result of climate change. They used to take advantage of a grain elevator in Mayfield, Kentucky...
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