Midwest farmers are facing more intense and frequent rainfalls that are flooding fields and changing the way they farm. What does the future hold?
In Indiana, along the Wabash River just upstream from McCormick, flows have increased by at least a third in the last century, according to a
“We need to start working with it instead of fighting it,” she continued. “We need to ask, how can we best manage all this water, because we’ve compromised the system so much already.”Harder rainfalls are one of the clearest climate signals emerging in the Upper Midwest. “Times have changed,” he said, “but farmers down here that get flooded a lot in these floodplains, they’ll go right back in and just keep trying to grow a crop.”
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