Dr. Emerson Nafziger reviews how corn and soybean yields (by region) and weather have changed in Illinois over the past 40 years, and shows how that information can be used to develop weather-yield models for each crop. He then discusses global climate change, including causes and current trends in temperatures and in CO2 concentration in the atmosphere. Illinois weather, predicted under climate change through 2075, were used along with the models developed to predict yield trends over the next 55 years.
This presentation was originally produced for the 2021 Virtual Crop Management Conference. If you received CEUs for this presentation while attending that conference, you are not eligible for additional CEUs for completing this course module. If you would like to view this presentation and do not need CEUs, it can be viewed here.
1.0 CEU - Crop Management