Agri-Pulse reports:
A new report from EPA says climate change has lengthened the crop growing season across the lower 48 states by an average of more than two weeks since the start of the 20th century. There has been “a particularly large and steady increase … since the 1970s,” the report says.
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Between 1895 and 2023, the length of the growing season increased by at least two days in 44 of the 48 states in the lower U.S., the report says. Three others — Oklahoma, Mississippi and Alabama — only saw losses or gains of up to two days, while Georgia saw its growing season decrease by between 10 and 20 days.
Washington, Oregon and California saw increases of between 40 and 50 days in their growing seasons from 1895 and 2023, the report says.
