{"id":16415,"date":"2025-08-25T19:20:48","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T19:20:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/topat10.com\/?p=16415"},"modified":"2025-08-25T19:20:48","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T19:20:48","slug":"like-the-corns-never-getting-a-break-its-just-hot-all-the-time-how-americas-farmers-conquered-climate-change-for-a-monster-harvest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/topat10.com\/?p=16415","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Like the corn\u2019s never getting a break. It\u2019s just hot all the time\u2019: How America\u2019s farmers conquered climate change for a \u2018monster\u2019 harvest"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Robb Rynd and his brother grew up farming and wanted to do more of it outside their day jobs, so they went in together on what\u2019s now a little over 200 acres of corn, soybeans, wheat and sorghum. Last year was a good year, and Rynd said he enjoyed walking the fields with his kids to see how the corn was doing.<\/p>\n

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This year is a different story.<\/p>\n

All summer he\u2019s been scouting for brown and wilting leaves or ears of corn with kernels missing, and now it\u2019s becoming clear that every kernel will count this harvest. \u201cIt\u2019s almost kind of depressing to go out there and look at it and say, \u2018oh yep, it does look bad,\u2019\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Across major corn-growing states, climate change is fueling conditions that make watching the corn grow a nail-biter for farmers. Factors like consistently\u00a0high summer overnight temperatures<\/a>,\u00a0droughts and heavier-than-usual rains<\/a>\u00a0at the wrong time can all disrupt the plants\u2019 pollination \u2014 making each full ear of corn less of a guarantee and more of a gamble.<\/p>\n

Overall, corn growers got lucky this year with late-season weather that contributed to what is now predicted to be a record bumper crop. But experts say bouts of extreme weather are intensifying the waiting game during a critical time of year between planting and harvest.<\/p>\n

Human-caused climate change has worsened multiple U.S. extreme heat events this year and has steadily increased the likelihood of hotter overnight temperatures since 1970,\u00a0according to Climate Central<\/a>, an independent group of scientists who communicate climate science and data to the public.<\/p>\n

\u201dThe hot nights too, like the corn\u2019s never getting a break. It\u2019s just hot all the time,\u201d Rynd said. \u201cI know it\u2019s wearing on me.\u201d<\/p>\n

How excessive heat and rainfall can impact corn pollination<\/h4>\n

As a corn plant grows, the leaves unroll to reveal the tassel, the part that sheds pollen, explained Mark Licht, an associate professor of agronomy and an extension cropping systems specialist at Iowa State University. If the plant grows too fast, which can happen when it\u2019s consistently very hot, the tassel may be wrapped too tightly by the leaf, meaning less pollen gets released.<\/p>\n

That can lead to patchy ears of corn. Tight tassel wrap was reported in pockets across parts of the Midwest and the Plains, according to some\u00a0agricultural trade publication<\/a>\u00a0reports\u00a0during the growing season<\/a>. Licht said he\u2019d\u00a0only seen tassel wrapping issues once before<\/a>\u00a0in his 20 years as an agronomist.<\/p>\n

High temperatures can\u00a0stress corn in other ways<\/a>, lowering pollen production, reducing pollen\u2019s viability or drying out other parts of the plants, reducing fertility. \u201cI think any of the pollination issues that we might be having are more because the nights have been so exceedingly warm,\u201d said Larry Walton, who farms near Rynd in southwestern Michigan, where many farmers irrigate because it\u2019s a drier area.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe tend to see pollination issues being more problematic when we have high temperatures and drought conditions or lack of rainfall,\u201d Licht said. Yet Iowa had plenty of rain and still saw some pollination issues.\u00a0Excessive moisture<\/a>\u00a0can cause\u00a0corn smut, a type of fungus<\/a>\u00a0that grows on the ears.<\/p>\n

He said farmers are having to pay more attention to this because \u201cthere\u2019s just more variable weather.\u201d<\/p>\n

Overall \u2018monster\u2019 yield expected despite tricky weather conditions<\/h4>\n

This winter,\u00a0the U.S. drought monitor<\/a>\u00a0reported drought in nearly 60% of corn production areas in the Midwest. But near or above normal rainfall nearly everywhere east of the Rockies this summer brought that down to just 3% as of the beginning of August, said Brad Rippey, a meteorologist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture.<\/p>\n

That, combined with consistent heat, means that \u201cwe are expecting a monster U.S. corn crop in 2025,\u201d Rippey said.<\/p>\n

But it wasn\u2019t easy for everyone. \u201cThis has probably been one of the most difficult growing seasons that I\u2019ve experienced in my career,\u201d said Philip Good, a farmer in Macon, Mississippi and chair of the United Soybean Board. He planted his corn and soybeans 60 days behind schedule because it rained nearly every day for two months.<\/p>\n

They lost some fertilizer and some plants died in standing water, Good said, but they made up for it with some lucky weather later in the season.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe rain does fall in heavier bursts,\u201d Rippey said. He said that can be an issue for farmers because even when it doesn\u2019t cause flash floods, the moisture doesn\u2019t necessarily percolate into the soil. It runs off and carries fertilizer with it, which is a problem for\u00a0rivers\u2019 health<\/a>\u00a0and farmers\u2019\u00a0pocketbooks<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The trend toward\u00a0higher humidity levels<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0warmer ocean temperatures<\/a>, contributing to hotter nights, could be a bigger issue going forward, putting stress on crops like corn and soybeans, Rippey added.<\/p>\n

Climate variability adds stress to a critical time for farmers<\/h4>\n

Late summer is a make-or-break time for farmers: They\u2019re trying to gauge how much they\u2019ll make from the year\u2019s crop and planning their next steps, and patchy pollination doesn\u2019t help.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019d like to upgrade a tractor \u2026 or we\u2019d maybe try to pick up some more ground,\u201d Rynd said. \u201cIt\u2019s hard to want to go do those things when you have a bad year like this.\u201d<\/p>\n

When the uncertain pollination is at its worst, if 15% to 25% of every ear of corn doesn\u2019t have kernels, that could mean a significant yield loss over a large field, said Nicolle Ritchie, a Michigan State University extension agent who helps Walton and Rynd survey their crops.<\/p>\n

Jason Cope co-founded a farm tech company called PowerPollen whose equipment can mechanically collect pollen and then pollinate future crops. He said that due to extreme weather events, the number of \u201crescue\u201d pollination jobs they\u2019ve done for customers \u2014 to save fields that didn\u2019t naturally pollinate very well \u2014 has nearly doubled since they started in 2018.<\/p>\n

Walton said he can manage as long as the pollination issues don\u2019t get too bad.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou learn to roll with the stress part of it because most of that you can\u2019t control anyway,\u201d he added. <\/p>\n

The Associated Press\u2019 climate and environmental coverage receives financial support from multiple private foundations. AP is solely responsible for all content. Find AP\u2019s\u00a0standards<\/a>\u00a0for working with philanthropies, a list of supporters and funded coverage areas at\u00a0AP.org<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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