This paper an excerpt from Technical Bulletin of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA's) Agricultural Research Service Climate Change Program Office describes climate change and agriculture in the USA. The paper discusses the following topics: crop and livestock response to changing climate, effects of climate change to soil and water, and extreme events. Further, the paper also enumerates a number of adaptation measures to address climate change and identifies research needs to improve understanding of the exposure, sensitivity, and adaptive capacity of the US agriculture to climate change.
