Crop
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Finance
Why Your Chocolate Fix Is About to Get More Expensive
A failed crop, followed by a wave of financial speculation, put cocoa prices on a roller coaster this year, rattling…
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Finance
They Grow Your Berries and Peaches, but Often Lack One Item: Insurance
Farmers of fruits and vegetables say coverage has become unavailable or unaffordable as drought and floods increasingly threaten their crops.
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World
First Scorched, Then Soaked: Weather Whiplash Confounds Farmers
As the war in Ukraine disrupts the global grain market, a volatile climate leaves Kansas on track to harvest its…
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Finance
How Climate Change Is Making Tampons (and Lots of Other Stuff) More Expensive
When the Agriculture Department finished its calculations last month, the findings were startling: 2022 was a disaster for upland cotton…