AgClimate Network

By Morgan Lawrence (she/her), USDA Northwest Climate Hub Northwest rangelands provide valuable resources including livestock forage, wildlife habitat and healthy watersheds. However, these landscapes face challenges associated with climate change, such as increasingly severe droughts, wildfires and extreme precipitation events. Such events can negatively impact livestock, forage and habitat health leading to reduced agricultural productivity, […]

By Chad Kruger, Center for Sustaining Agriculture & Natural Resources One of the most significant challenges to climate adaptation planning in agriculture is the difficulty in visualizing what future climate change might mean for your area in a concrete way. From late 2014 to early 2016 the Pacific Northwest experienced what could be called “climate […]

By Dani Gelardi, Washington State Department of Agriculture Earlier this year we detailed the positive and negative impacts of the Climate Commitment Act (CCA) to Washington’s agricultural sector. To briefly recap, we discussed the many new programs funded by the CCA, including those that make it easier and more affordable for producers to implement practices […]

Applications are now open until October 18th for the 2025 cohort of the Climate Analogs Academy, a training opportunity for Extension professionals in specialty crops to increase climate resilience in their regions. When it comes to climate change resilience in agriculture, the question is generally not why agricultural operations should be prepared, but which preparations will be effective? Through […]

By Sonia A. Hall, Center for Sustaining Agriculture and Natural Resources, Washington State University In an article earlier this year I discussed StockSmart, the free, online decision support tool we launched in 2023 that accesses remotely sensed forage production data and allows the user to easily define what is accessible to their livestock based on […]