Most of you know I read the Browning Letter, which is a deep-dive monthly primer on global weather patterns. This month I post it for OMS and suggest you read the last section on the “new normal” as the Pacific warms up in a decades-long cycle. That affects agricultural patterns significantly. I leave you to your own conclusions, but I can see land that is cheap today becoming more valuable as farming patterns shift.

“Typically, it takes about a decade for societies to adjust to the 'new normal' created by the shifts in the Pacific. They migrate, originally to other farmlands and more recently, as a source of labor, to cities or other neighbors. They change crops or, with livestock, adjust acreage and breeds. During the 1970s, many traditional societies accepted the 'green revolution' and currently some are increasing their use of genetically modified seeds. We are in the middle of one of these times of adjustment, but history can show us how to ease the transition.”