New York farmers trying to cope with the warmest October in human history, which has led to forest/brush fires in the Catskills and New Jersey, and turned the soil into superdry dust, making it impossible to plant cover crops or otherwise prepare fields for spring planting.
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https://grist.org/food-and-agriculture/praying-for-rain-how-new-york-farmers-are-dealing-with-drought-and-unexpected-brush-fires/
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https://grist.org/food-and-agriculture/praying-for-rain-how-new-york-farmers-are-dealing-with-drought-and-unexpected-brush-fires/
‘Praying for rain’: How New York farmers are dealing with drought — and unexpected brush fires
The historic lack of rainfall in New York is just another sign of the increasingly erratic weather conditions under which food must grow.Frida Garza (Grist)
