. >> in california 400,000 acres are unplanted at a cost of $800 million in loft revenue because of the drought. >> in bosnia, the worst floods swamped 172,000 acres of crops in may. devastating the country's agricultural industry. last wint inside polar vortex took a toll as the impact made big news on the vineyard. >> a crisis on the lake erie shore line. >> some call it global warming, global weirding. >> reporter: robert, founder of green sense farms is not worried about mother nature. he raises his crops here, inside a 30,000 square food warehouse, 50 miles outside of chicago. >> they are growing crops and warehouses, farmers say they can bring local produce from farm to table in places like this in as little as 24 hours. >> what are some of the major this? >> they take weather out of the equation. every day is consistent and the same. we get perfect plants every day. >> reporter: green sense farms opened doors in may and is supplying 1,000 cases of produce to stores and restaurants in the midwest. how do you meet the challenges? >> there's no book. no one has done this before. we

were not going to see the fronts of their buildings but the backs which were unpainted, they were unplanted, piled high with old junk. it made i'd eye springs look like, as the local newspaper put it, a ghost town and the process of decay. this was not a good impression for prospective visitors. so for small-town boosters and business owners trying to capitalize on the exploding post-war automobile vacationing

were not going to see the fronts of their buildings but the backs which were unpainted, they were unplanted, piled high with old junk. it made i'd eye springs look like, as the local newspaper put it, a ghost town and the process of decay. this was not a good impression for prospective visitors. so for small-town boosters and business owners trying to capitalize on the exploding post-war automobile vacationing industry, it was no longer going to be enough just to put up a little window dressing in front. now they had to take what the local newspaper called a tourist's eye view of their own hometown to consider what kind of landscape and atmosphere would be needed to attract vacationers and to compete with other communities that were trying to do exactly the same thing. so in short, already with this very first stretch of i-70 to be built up in the high country we can already see a hint of how large-scale post-war tourist development was going to change people's view of the land. the way people related to place and the ways they saw fit to take care of it. so i'll dive into the story now sor