As New Hampshire summers grow drier, farmers evolve to cope

"Over the course of a summer as hot and dry as this one, without intervention, New Hampshire’s apple crop might drop right off their branches before eager apple pickers could reach them.

But as summer turns to fall and drought conditions wear on across much of the state, New Hampshire farmers aren’t letting their crops wilt. Instead, in the face of increasingly extreme weather fluctuations, some farmers are turning to new technologies and data-driven approaches they hope will keep them productive and competitive despite New Hampshire’s changing climate." Read on here