Climate Change Impacts on Animal Agriculture
Channel: Livestock & Poultry Environ. Learning Community
Date: 2015-10-05

This course lesson by the Animal Agriculture in a Changing Climate Project describes the impacts of climate change on animal agriculture. Farmers and animal health experts discuss how animal production is affected by climate events such as excessive heat or cold, drought, flooding or other weather events. The lesson teaches a systematic approach to evaluating a farm operation's vulnerability to climate changes - a farm climate impacts audit.
For more on this topic, visit: http://extension.org/60702
The project wishes to thank Dr. Larry Chase, Cornell University, Dr. Beverly Henry, Queensland University of Technology, Todd Bilby, Merck Animal Health, Tyler Holden, Holden Farms, Lee Johnston, University of Minnesota, Sally Noll, University of Minnesota, Dr. Sandra Matheson (beef producer), Peter Wright, USDA NRCS, and Justin Derner, USDA ARS for their contributions to the video.