UI Ag researchers look 50 years ahead
By Greg Kline
Friday June 30, 2006
Heather Coit
Stephen Long said SoyFACE has drawn interest from scientists all over the world.
Models of the expected impact from global warming in the next 50 years have assumed that a warmer climate and drier soil would be bad for crops in many parts of the world, East Central Illinois among them.
But the projections also have assumed that higher levels of carbon dioxide, largely manmade, could super-fertilize crop plants, upping yields and more or less offsetting the effects of the increased heat and lower soil moisture.
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