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$5 million grant to research climate change challenges

Farmers make difficult decisions every day to ensure an abundant food supply for a growing population.  Purdue University hopes that a recent $5 million grant to develop support tools will help corn and soybean producers make those decisions a little easier.  Purdue President France A. Cordova says the project will provide producers with the technologies they need to adopt practices to adapt to climatic shifts.

Associate professor, Linda Prokopy, will lead researchers in the multi-year project.  Prokopy says the first step will predict the affect different climates have on corn and soybean growth through twelve states.  The second step focuses on the best way to deliver the information to the producers. 

The project is funded by the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative and will include information from nine other universities.  (Michigan State, University of Illinois, University of Minnesota, University of Wisconsin, Iowa State, University of Missouri, University of Nebraska, University of Michigan and South Dakota State University).