Crops are potentially another climate change casualty in Dane County. That's a problem given that the county accounted for 36% of Wisconsin's total agricultural sales from crops and 64% of livestock, poultry and other products in 2017, according to the USDA Census of Agriculture.

Christopher Kucharik, professor and chair of the agronomy department at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, is well versed on how local farmers are dealing and not dealing with climate change.