Climate could hammer livestock profitability - National Rural News - Livestock - News - Farm Weekly

THE profitability of some livestock enterprises could be more than halved in the next 20 years as higher temperatures and lower rainfall take their toll on pasture productivity, according to an extensive modelling exercise.

...Mr Graham said the forecasts draw on considerable computational power. The average output of four global climate models (GCMs) was used to forecast likely climates in 2030, and those results were fed through pasture and livestock production models like GrassGro to provide a picture of future productivity.

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 "It is very likely that several of the unprecedented extremes of the past decade would not have occurred without anthropogenic global warming," said the study.