date:May 08, 2014
enefit agricultural productivity by increasing water availability through soil moisture reserves during the early growing season, but this may be offset by fields too wet to plant.
Rising temperatures will lengthen the growing season, possibly allowing a second annual crop in some places and some years, the report said.
At the same time, warmer winters may allow pests and invasive weeds to survive the winters and become more pervasive. Also, winter crops such as hard red winter wheat grown in