# Environment poses risks to future ag production
        
        
        
        - Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City

> A Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City symposium paper by Wolfram Schlenker examined corn yields from 1980 to 2019. It found that extreme heat and ozone pollution have caused yield losses of more than 20% in some years.

- Date: 2021-05-11 · published 2021-05-11T12:00:00.000Z
- Category: weather · region US · magnitude low
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/46941-environment-poses-risks-to-future-ag-production-federal-reserve-bank-of-kansas
- Commodities: [Corn](https://feedsoft.ai/c/CORN.md)

## Why it matters

The findings highlight that heat stress is a persistent yield risk for corn, which can support prices over the long run, though the study gives no immediate supply signal.

## Read by commodity

- CORN: bullish ▲

## Similar past events

| Commodity | Date | Event | 5-day % | 20-day % |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| CORN | 2026-06-08 | [Agricultural production threatened by combination of El Niño and high input prices - Joint Research Centre](https://feedsoft.ai/events/18726-agricultural-production-threatened-by-combination-of-el-nino-and-high-input.md) | -0.9% | +0.5% |
| CORN | 2024-09-19 | [Brazil Crop Production Preview - Blue Line Futures](https://feedsoft.ai/events/13545-brazil-crop-production-preview-blue-line-futures.md) | -0.7% | -2.4% |
| CORN | 2026-08-04 | [Heatwaves take their toll on EU grain production - Grain Central](https://feedsoft.ai/events/17839-heatwaves-take-their-toll-on-eu-grain-production-grain-central.md) | -0.5% | +10.1% |
| CORN | 2026-06-23 | [Record heat puts French grain harvest at risk \| Science-Environment](https://feedsoft.ai/events/18752-record-heat-puts-french-grain-harvest-at-risk-science-environment.md) | -4.1% | +3.5% |
| CORN | 2021-07-30 | [What Are Video Auctions and CME Futures Telling Us About Fall Feeder Cattle Prices? \| Center for Agricultural Profitability \| Nebraska](https://feedsoft.ai/events/46209-what-are-video-auctions-and-cme-futures-telling-us-about-fall-feeder-cattle.md) | -0.1% | -1.1% |

## Sources

- kansascityfed.org: https://www.kansascityfed.org/agriculture/ag-symposium-snapshots/environment-poses-risks-to-future-production/

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