Presentations
T8
Soil & Water Management
Tue, Dec 19, 2023
8:00am to 8:50am
T1
Soil & Water Management
Tue, Dec 19, 2023
1:00pm to 1:50pm
Understanding Climate Issues Impacting Crop Production – USDA Midwest Climate Hub
Climate is impacting a wide range of issues around crop production including direct impacts to production like changes in precipitation and growing seasons. Secondary impacts such as soil loss, and changing disease and insect issues are also climate-related. This presentation will discuss several of these including how these have impacted agriculture already and may in the future. Come learn more about these and how the USDA Midwest Climate Hub is helping to address these issue to keep agriculture resilient through these changes. Bring your questions.
Speaker
Dennis Todey
Dr. Dennis Todey has been the Director of the USDA Midwest Climate Hub in Ames. IA since 2016. The hub delivers actionable climate information for agriculture across the Corn Belt. He has spent his career working on climate and ag issues throughout the Midwest and Northern Plains including climate change issues and agriculture and tool and data development for agricultural use working with numerous federal, regional and state partners. He is a co-author on the last 2 National Climate Assessments and is developing state level summaries in the Midwest states. He was previously the State Climatologist for South Dakota at South Dakota State University from 2003-2016. He has BS in Meteorology from Iowa State, an MS in Meteorology from the South Dakota School of Mines and PhD in Agricultural Meteorology from Iowa State.