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Northeast Climate Hub partners have published two new studies exploring how a changing climate is affecting regional crops and livestock. Hear the lead authors of these studies highlight species or production systems that might be particularly vulnerable to changing conditions. They also include practical actions one can take to reduce the harmful aspects of some of these changes. This is Part 1: Challenges and Opportunities for NE Crop Production in a Changing Climate (presenter: David Wolfe)

A short guide to Whole Farm Planning. Whole Farm Planning can help you: develop a vision for your farm ten, twenty, or fifty years into the future; improve the profitability and efficiency of your farm operations; build respect from the community for your work in protecting the environment; make the farm a safe and healthy place for you and your family.

This is a collection of tools, resources, publications, etc that help farmers in Maine adapt to the effects of climate change.

Resources on mental and physical health and stress management for farmers.

The National Agricultural Library (NAL) is one of five national libraries of the United States. It houses one of the world's largest collections devoted to agriculture and its related sciences. From this site, you can request to borrow materials, Ask a Librarian, and more.

Serves as a gateway to invasive species information from federal, state, local, and international sources.

This 2015 report provides an overview of regional agriculture and forest system sensitivities to climate change and adaptation strategies, a greenhouse gas emissions and mitigation profile for the region, and a summary of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) programs that are vulnerable to a changing climate and what is being done to build resilience on working lands through these programs.

Projects fail at a spectacular rate. One reason is that too many people are reluctant to speak up about their reservations during the all-important planning phase. By making it safe for dissenters who are knowledgeable about the undertaking and worried about its weaknesses to speak up, you can improve a project’s chances of success.

An educational program that improves the ability of Extension professionals and others to give management advice to farmers and ranchers based on a whole-farm analysis of their operation.

As sea levels rise along the coasts, saltwater can move onto the land. Known as saltwater intrusion, this occurs when storm surges or high tides overtop areas low in elevation. It also occurs when saltwater infiltrates freshwater aquifers and raises the groundwater table below the soil surface. This article summarizes and provides more resources on the current and future impact of saltwater on coastal farms.

Research-based, farmer driven information about practicing sustainable agriculture on your farm. Topics to browse include Farm Business Management, Animal Production, Pest Management, Sustainable Communities, Soil Management, and more.

Making a profit growing tree fruit in the Northeast has never been easy, but could become more difficult in the coming decades as climate change progresses in the Northeast. This document is a checklist of possible climate and weather‐related challenges, and some opportunities that may increase over the next 30 years, with actions tree fruit growers can take to reduce risk or maximize opportunity.

Participants will learn how carbon is sequestered in agricultural soils and how agriculture can contribute to climate change mitigation and reach GHG reduction goals.

A SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats) template for a farm's climate change resilience. Also includes tabs on assessing strategies, from financial to production to labor, and a resilience action plan template.

Biodiversity for a Livable Climate presents a talk by Walter Jehne, Australian climate scientist and soil microbiologist who is the Director of Healthy Soils Australia.

An in-depth view from 2021 at the effects climate change will have on Vermont, the state of Vermont's food system, and key actions Vermont farmers can take to adapt.