Hey, smarties, it's Kimberly. Happy Thanksgiving. Today, we're sharing an episode from the new season of Marketplaces Climate Solutions podcast, How We Survive. This one has to do with the future of the food that may be on your Thanksgiving table. As the planet heats up, the climate of the Midwest is changing, which has major implications for our food supply.

In this episode, Amy Scott drives across Kansas to find out how farmers are adapting.

All right, here's the show.

Flying into Dodge City, Kansas from the west, the first thing I notice from the air is how flat it is.

Cropland stretches all the way to the horizon in alternating squares of green and brown.

This is farm country.

And also cattle country. Walking down the ramp to the one gate airport, visitors are greeted with a sign,

cowboy capital of the West. Gunslingers Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday spent time here during the cattle drive boom of the 1870s.

If you ever saw the TV show Gunsmoke?

You take Bulo, and you take the rest of your men, and you get out of Dodge.

Yep, this is the town where that phrase comes from.

When I walk into the visitor's center to get my bearings, old episodes are playing

on a TV screen. So what are the cupcakes for? Today is the 70th anniversary of Gunsmoke, so we are

helping celebrate the anniversary of Gunsmoke. You've got to be kidding. I can't believe I timed it

so well. Wow. You've got to be kidding. I can't believe I timed it so well. Wow.

What brought me to town, though, is another aspect of Dodge City lore, and I find it right next

to a bronze Wyatt Earp statue on a busy street corner.

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I'm at a sign that says, the 100th Meridian, where East meets West.

The 100th Meridian. It's the invisible longitudinal line that runs from pole to pole and cuts

through the Great Plains.

The meridian passes through the city approximately one mile east of this marker between

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