Seven new bases will help farmers deal with global warming.
"For generations, America's farmers, ranchers and forest landowners have innovated and adapted to challenges. Today, they face a new and more complex threat in the form of a changing and shifting climate, which impacts both our nation's forests and our farmers' bottom lines," Tom Vilsack, agriculture secretary at the USDA said in a statement in a press release. "USDA's Climate Hubs are part of our broad commitment to developing the next generation of climate solutions, so that our agricultural leaders have the modern technologies and tools they need to adapt and succeed in the face of a changing climate," Vilsack said in the statement.
Tasks will be done at the department's various offices on real-world and online throughout the United States as a way to allow other governmental departments to work better together the press release reported Wednesday.
"Climate change is all hands on deck," Michael Hoffmann director of New York State agricultural experiment station at Cornell University told New Scientist. "We need all the partners we can get," Hoffman told New Scientist.
The new setup is also expected to help limits the effects of global warming for farmers United Press International reported. These include strong strongs and lack of rain.
The department of agriculture placed the hubs or locations based on how climate influenced an area.
More winter storms tend to hit the southeast while the southwest is currently going through a drought New Scientist reported.
The locations will be located in Raleigh, N.C.; Durham, N.H.; Ames, Iowa; Fort Collins, Colo.; El Reno, Okla.; Corvallis, Ore.; and Las Cruces, N.M.
"The nation is recognising that climate change is real," Lindsay Rustad, one of the leaders of the projects location in the northeast told New Scientist.. "This isn't just this week or this month. This is redirecting a significant portion of USDA resources to address the problem," Rustad told New Scientist.
