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Celebrating 10 Years!

During the past decade the Climate Hubs have grown and expanded their collaborative efforts, enabling more climate-informed decision making and assistance in implementing those decisions.


   


10 years of USDA Climate Hubs

Empowering land managers to build a climate-resilient future


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Over the past ten years the Climate Hubs have built trust by working across the USDA and with partners to support climate-informed decisions for robust agriculture, healthy forests, and resilient communities. The USDA Climate Hubs continue to expand upon their priorities: a better understanding of the full range of potential climate change impacts; accelerating development of science-based solutions; informing deployment of adaptation strategies; and building tools for farmers, ranchers, and foresters to understand how to implement climate-informed and nature-based solutions.



Stories from Our First 10 years


This is a collection of stories from Climate Hub partners and employees that highlight a few of the significant ways the Climate Hubs have provided support to the forestry and agriculture communities over the past decade.

California Wine Growers Dive into Climate Smart Agriculture

Southeast Climate Hub Combats Soil Salinization

Highlights from the Past 10 Years


  • Economics of Long-term Soil Health Practices

    ARS long term study site no till farming plots

    This project is assessing the economic costs and benefits of implementing soil health practices (particularly, cover crops and no-tillage) on Northeast and North Central US agriculture. It leverages data from long-term…

  • Grass-Cast: Grassland Productivity Forecast

    An example set of 3 Grass-Cast maps showing what conditions would be if the precipitation received from the date that the maps were created and August 31st is above, near, or below normal, and approximatley what the grassland production in an area would be by percent compared to its 38-year average.

    Every spring, ranchers face the same difficult challenge – trying to guess how much grass will be available for livestock to graze during the upcoming summer. An innovative Grassland Productivity Forecast or “Grass-Cast…

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