Scientists can give us a 30,000-foot view of how climate change is now impacting our planet. Bob Vollinger can tell you how that translates to daily life at Vollinger Farm in Florence. Some of the repercussions are unexpected.

“I've never seen it so dry,” he said last week, before the recent rain. "Right now, I'm having a hard time even keeping my cows inside the electric fence. There's not enough moisture in the soil for the grounding rod to work properly, so they push right through.”