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According to a study done by Purdue Climate Change Resource Center, there is an ever evolving amount of greenhouse gas in the atmosphere causing the temperatures in Indiana to rise during summertime. An increase in these conditions lead to an abundance of summer storms resulting in more severe flooding. This then causes defects to the moisture in the soil making the farming of crops difficult. With the result of hotter summers comes wetter, warmer winters that mess up the organic matter in the soil. Overall, more than 80% of the land in Indiana is dedicated to farmland meaning improper soil would ruin the crop production. The idea I propose is called Elevated Farming. It’s a combination of terraces used in certain Asian countries to promote proper moisture and a classic irrigation system. The idea would be layered crops on top of each other with rows of “craters” allowing steady waterflow all the way to the last layer. From there, there is a filtration system allowing the unused water to be harvested for watering the crops when necessary. This method would allow the crops to still thrive and grow as well as put the over abundance of precipitation to use.