NASA
The German company Constellr is part of the John Deere Start-Up Collaborator Program in 2024. It plans to launch a geothermal satellite next year that will give farmers and ranchers better tools to monitor surface temperature from space.
An American astronaut has been growing tomatoes during his 300 days on the International Space Station.
Farmers as far south as Virginia and Maryland are now facing air quality warnings during critical fieldwork times.
Wildfires have scorched almost 2,000 square miles in Southern Canada so far, and the ongoing heat and drought are not helping ag production. The number of fires already surpassed the 10-year average.
Broadleaf weeds and black cutworm moths are already making their presence known in the Midwest, farmers say.
