Agricultural impacts of climate change in Indiana and potential adaptations

Bowling, L. C.; Cherkauer, Keith A.; Lee, Charlotte I.; Beckerman, Janna L.; Brouder, Sylvie M.; Buzan, J. R.; Doering, Otto C.; Dukes, Jeffrey S.; Ebner, Paul; Frankenberger, Jane; Gramig, Benjamin M.; Kladivko, E. J.; Volenec, Jeffrey J.

doi:10.1007/s10584-020-02934-9

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“…These crops—including apples, peaches, and grape varieties—will be impacted by changing chilling patterns and increasing temperatures. Current varieties may experience reducing yields, and some varieties may be replaced (Bowling et al 2020 ).…”

Section: Indirect Impacts Of Climate Changementioning

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Implications of climate change for tourism and outdoor recreation: an Indiana, USA, case study

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In this case study, we examine a broad range of impacts on tourism and recreation based on projected changes to Indiana’s climate. The direct impacts of climate change on Indiana include increases in the number of hot and extremely hot days each summer, fewer mild days, more rain, and less snow. Each direct impact will affect tourism and recreation. Additionally, a range of indirect impacts are anticipated, including climate-related changes in health issues, new infrastructure needs, changes in forests and other recreational areas, and shifting consumer attitudes toward travel and recreation. Although direct impacts are predictable, indirect impacts on the complex tourism system are harder to anticipate, and the tourism and recreation industry must build resilience to respond to future change. The paper concludes with recommendations for future study.

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Implications of climate change for tourism and outdoor recreation: an Indiana, USA, case study

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“…Each individual report highlights a specific, local interest such as forestry, urban parks, and tourism. While each of these reports offers insightful looks at how an organization might strategize the use of different frames and stases with different audiences, the report I focus on here is Indiana’s Agriculture in a Changing Climate (Bowling et al., 2018). In this report, we can see how the use of procedural and definition stases lead to a change of terrain in the discussion surrounding the climate crisis: Rather than discussing whether or not the crisis is real (conjectural stasis) or how bad it is (quality stasis), they take the reality and seriousness of the crisis as a given and instead spend more time on how Indiana’s agricultural industry can adapt to the changing climate (procedural) as well as redefining the crisis as a local issue (definition).…”

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“…The authors of the report utilize local data, focusing on evidence of past trends in Indiana to show the impact of a changing climate on local agricultural factors. They give these examples to highlight how Indiana agriculture is “highly sensitive to shifts in temperature, precipitation and atmospheric CO 2 , which directly affect crop growth, livestock and poultry productivity and other agricultural concerns” (Bowling et al., 2018, p. 3). They describe a storm in 2015 where the agricultural industry lost $300 million in corn and soybeans because of heavy rain; years earlier, drought and heat caused more than $1 billion in insurance payments; in 2007, 2012, and 2016, they note, apple crops suffered “nearly complete” losses due to unseasonal temperatures (p. 3).…”

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“…I present this as one possible strategy for changing the frame of the climate crisis discussion. To demonstrate how changing stases can be done, I examine Indiana’s Agriculture in a Changing Climate (Bowling et al., 2018), a report prepared by the Indiana Climate Change Impacts Assessment for local, Indiana agricultural workers. This report shows how focusing on the stases of procedure and definition can change the terrain of the debate, making for a stronger and potentially more convincing argument to a specific, local audience.…”

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Changing Climate, Changing Terrain: The Stasis Metaphor and the Climate Crisis

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2020

Journal of Technical Writing and Communication

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Rhetorical theory has frequently relied on metaphors of place and positioning as heuristics to build better arguments. This article utilizes one such metaphor, that of stasis theory, as a method by which we might change the terrain of the conversation surrounding the climate crisis. As an example, the author does a rhetorical analysis of a recent agricultural report from the Indiana Climate Change Impacts Assessment and finds that, rather than using traditional questions of conjecture and quality, the authors of the report focus on questions of procedure and definition to reframe the discussion surrounding the climate crisis. Drawing from the rhetoric in this report, the author suggests that technical communicators might similarly produce more fruitful conversations around the climate crisis if they focus on what to do (procedure) and redefining the crisis as a local issue (definition).

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“…Drought frequency and severity are likely to increase in the future [3][4][5]. Consequently, yields of crops such as corn and soybean are predicted to decline by 8-21% [6]. Under rainfed conditions, seasonal water supply and soil water holding capacity are major determinants of crop productivity [7].…”

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Transpiration Responses of Herbicide-Resistant and -Susceptible Palmer amaranth [<em>Amaranthus palmeri</em> (S.) Wats.] to Progressively Drying Soil

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Drought events are predicted to become more prevalent in the future. Evaluating the performance of herbicide-resistant and susceptible weed ecotypes to progressive drought can provide insights into whether resistance trait(s) increased or reduced the fitness of a resistant population. Two experiments were conducted in the greenhouse between January and May 2021 to evaluate drought tolerance differences between Palmer amaranth accessions resistant to S-metolachlor or glyphosate and their susceptible counterparts. The accessions used were: S-metolachlor-resistant (17TUN-A), a susceptible standard (09CRW-A), and glyphosate-resistant (22 to 165 EPSPS copies) and glyphosate-susceptible (3 to 10 EPSPS copies) plants from accession 16CRW-D. Daily transpiration of each plant was measured. The daily transpiration rate was converted to normalized transpiration ratio (NTR) using a double-normalization procedure. The daily soil water content was expressed as a fraction of transpirable soil water (FTSW). The threshold FTSW (FTSWcr), after which NTR decreases linearly, was estimated using a two-segment linear regression analysis. The data showed differences between S-metolachlor- resistant and -susceptible accessions (P ≤ 0.05). The FTSW remaining in the soil at the breakpoint for the S-metolachlor-susceptible accession (09CRW-A) was 0.17±0.007. The FTSW remaining in the soil at the breakpoint for the S-metolachlor-resistant accession (17TUN-A) was 0.23±0.004. Although the mechanism endowing resistance to S-metolachlor might have contributed to increased drought tolerance, follow-up experiments are needed to verify this finding. Increased EPSPS copy number did not improve drought tolerance of Palmer amaranth.

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Agricultural impacts of climate change in Indiana and potential adaptations

Cited by 33 publications

References 70 publications

Implications of climate change for tourism and outdoor recreation: an Indiana, USA, case study

Implications of climate change for tourism and outdoor recreation: an Indiana, USA, case study

Changing Climate, Changing Terrain: The Stasis Metaphor and the Climate Crisis

Transpiration Responses of Herbicide-Resistant and -Susceptible Palmer amaranth [<em>Amaranthus palmeri</em> (S.) Wats.] to Progressively Drying Soil

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