Why Don't Farmers Believe in Climate Change?

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This story first appeared in Slate and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.
If it isn't torrential downpours, then it's too dry. If there's one thing US farmers can count on, it's bad weather, and perhaps as a result, many of them don't think humanity is to blame for the long-term shifts in weather patterns known as climate change. But even