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Nancy kaywood said less than half of her 247 acre farm is producing crops. >> were not making money. we dont know how long we could hang in there. >> reporter: the crises creating a domino effect. lesser availability in restaurants and grocery stores and billions of dollars in lost revenue. a startling new reality impacting every level of life from coast to coast. >> nbcs steve patterson with that report. and up next, well check in on wall street where investors are trying to read the tea leaves...

In Gabon, farmers are trying a multitude of ways to live peacefully alongside wild forest elephants. In one trial, elephant-repelling electric fences have been customized to work in the dense tropical forest.

That hydration to their animals and their crops for a bit, but ultimately we would need several years of good snow pack and rain for us to see some real big improvement here. so you take a look at the colorado river and see how dramatic it is there. of the numbers we have got, these monsoon rains have helped out arizona the most. we have seen their numbers improve a bit now. only 3% of the state is in extreme drought. that is the lowest in two years. so good news for arizona. that dramatic impro...

In a months time, the traditional european harvest will be complete. currently, farmers are working around the clock to cut corn, with strawberries and raspberries already picked in june and july. farming has always embraced the latest technology, from the plough through to tractors and beyond. but it is under pressure. fuel and fertiliser costs are rising, labour is hard to get, and still consumers and supermarkets are demanding cheaper and cheaper prices. added to that, climate change is affec...

France fruit and vegetable crops have fallen by nearly 35 per cent due to the extreme drought this summer, Jacques Rouchausse, president of the French nationa

So our sensors are able to monitor this whole environment — they move around. and what theyre looking at is particular leaves. were able to use optoelectronics, which is smart physics, to understand how the leaf is performing. it works by combining the images it collects with machine learning, which has been trained on lots of pictures of plants at various stages of growth. this allows the system to monitor how well the process of photosynthesis is working in each plant, and this tells them ho...

>> cant water in the middle of the day now, youll be fined if you dont change watering clock. >> all measures she would like to see downstream. >> i think theyre kind of kicking the can down the road and pass the election if you want me to be very frank about it. i dont think anybody wants to make great public announcement about measures they may have to take. prior to the election. >> president enforce new action, the feds will let the states keep talking with the next round of automatic cuts w...

These autonomous pickers can harvest precisely and gently without tiring or needing a break.

Change your watering clock. >> all measures she would like to see happened downstream. >> i think they are kicking the can down the road past the election, if you want me to be very frank about it. i dont think anybody wants to make great public announcements about measures they may have to take prior to the election. >> rather than force new actions, the feds will let the states keep talking. the next round of automatic cuts will lower water delivery by 7% to mexico, 8% to nevada, and 21% to ar...

As well as a new pool of data. it uses machine learning processes to analyse the crops and identify areas that might require attention. we can better understand whats happening for sure. we have a lot of... ..a big database about all the climate data since ive been working here, since 20 years. we have all this data, we have all the data about the yields, about the concentration in sugar of all the grapes. artificial intelligence here will help us to predict and to forecast what will happen for ...