Manitoba Not Yielding To Climate Change?
As a reaction to my March 2007 homepage, Doug Wilcox wrote that indeed there is no place for complacency. That would be dangerous even in Manitoba where early climate change appears not yet to have had great influence on yields.
By KEES STIGTER
As a reaction to my March 2007 homepage, Doug Wilcox wrote that
indeed there is no place for complacency. That would be dangerous
even in Manitoba where early climate change appears not yet to have
had great influence on yields. He feels that anticipatory
adaptation will be necessary. But adaptation prescriptions will
have to consider other essential change factors as well, that is
the whole of the farming systems and related actions for marketing,
to remain understandable and acceptable to farmers. Farmers have
adapted to change, they will have to adapt to new changes, and
climate change is one of them. But it should be handled indeed as
one of them, because where the climate impacts are for the time
being marginal in Manitoba, the reality of farming will teach us
about the combination of adaptations that are necessary in the
course of time. This contribution is one of a few interesting
papers where local agrometeorology around climate issues are dealt
with in much detail. Great examples of what agrometeorology can do
for today’s farmers in highly developed agriculture. The
other papers are introduced in a follow up item. Here follows, with
permission of the author,
the contribution of Doug Wilcox to the 2006 Manitoba Agronomists
Conference.
Kees Stigter
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