Shannan Sweet and David Wolfe conducted a New York State Drought Survey in 2016 in order to determine the impacts of the drought on farmers in New York. The survey aimed to elucidate impacts by commodity and also based on whether farmers irrigated or not.
Read about this survey, the results, and the recommendations based on this research in the third edition of the CICSS Research and Policy Brief Series, entitled “Anatomy of a Rare Drought: Insights from New York Farmers” on our Publications page.