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Climate change has pushed Madison into new zone on USDA’s ‘plant hardiness’ map

“We’re getting warmer and wetter, and a lot of that precipitation is happening in the winter,” said Lisa Johnson, a horticulture outreach specialist with the UW extension in Dane County. “That I think is really causing farmers more issues. If you have deeper snow cover or it’s rainier in spring, then you can’t get out into the fields.”