Agricultural advisors: A receptive audience for weather and climate information?

Weather, Climate, and Society

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 162-167

  Prokopy, Linda Stalker ^a   Haigh, Tonya ^b   Mase, Amber Saylor ^a   Angel, Jim ^c   Hart, Chad ^d   Knutson, Cody ^b   Lemos, Maria Carmen ^e   Lo, Yun Jia ^f   McGuire, Jean ^d   Morton, Lois Wright ^d   Perron, Jennifer ^e   Todey, Dennis ^g   Widhalm, Melissa ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^c ILLINOIS STATE WATER SURVEY   (United States)

^d IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^f MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CROP PRODUCTION; CROPPING PRACTICE; GLOBAL CLIMATE; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; MAIZE; PROFITABILITY; SURVEY; WEATHER FORECASTING;

UNITED STATES;

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84879094895     PISSN: 19488327     EISSN: 19488335     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/WCAS-D-12-00036.1     Document Type: Article

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