New Online Tool Aims to Accelerate Conservation Agriculture
Farmer engagement with data-driven, farmer-centered messaging doubled compared to traditional outreach strategies. Lenexa, Kan. (Feb. 1, 2024) — A new web-based tool provides an interactive guide to help conservation professionals optimize and scale engagement with farmers and ranchers. The step-by-step tool is designed to help groups ranging from supply chain businesses to local conservation districts develop effective ways […]
ACAM Executive Q&A: Michael Gomes, V.P. Sustainability and Global Corporate Responsibility, Topcon
AEM member Topcon discusses how today’s tools can help producers make better management decisions and quantify how good for business is also good for the environment. Mechanization is more than red, blue, yellow, green and orange machines. The collection of components that ride along on farm equipment enable global positioning, optimize implement adjustments, provide […]
How Farm Policy Responds To Producer Needs
Farm Bill programs and new funding mechanisms aim to meet the backlog of demand from farmers and ranchers. Both sides of his family survived the Dust Bowl, the drought of the 1950s, two world wars and the early 21st Century drought, which U.S. Rep. Frank Lucas says was the most severe. Through the years his […]
Syngenta’s Cropwise Sustainability App Gives Producers a Platform to Assess Opportunities In Conservation
Self-assessment tool allows farmers and ranchers to establish a conservation score to baseline different aspects of their operations. Farmers around the country want to do the right things when it comes to conservation, and they have been adopting conservation practices for generations. Many say they’re not getting credit for the best practices they’ve established through […]
<strong>How Habitat Management Plans Drive Healthier Land, Livestock and Forages</strong>
Agriculture operations can be a solution to restoring and connecting ecosystems that have significant benefits to farming operations and the communities and wildlife around them.
Verdesian Joins America’s Conservation Ag Movement
Lenexa, Kan., – Farm Journal’s Trust In Food™ is proud to announce Verdesian Life Sciences has joined America’s Conservation Ag Movement™, one of the largest public-private partnerships solely dedicated to the acceleration of conservation agriculture. Verdesian is a leader in Nutrient Use Efficiency, the next frontier in plant yield and crop quality. Verdesian provides solutions […]
Farm Journal Names Jimmy Emmons Senior Vice President of Climate-Smart Programs
Lenexa, Kan., (Feb. 22, 2023) – Farm Journal’s Trust In Food™ is proud to welcome Jimmy Emmons as senior vice president of climate-smart programs. Emmons will lead Trust In Food’s Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities Connected Ag Project, America’s Conservation Ag Movement and Trust In Beef, coalition-driven conservation programs developed to accelerate the adoption of conservation […]
NRCS Chief Terry Cosby Details Funding for ‘Once-in-a-Lifetime Investment Into Conservation’
About $22.8 billion in additional funding will be funneled into conservation agriculture during the next five years through the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) and Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities (PCSC) pilot projects.
America’s Conservation Ag Movement, Valent Launch Conservation = Innovation Video Series
Four row-crop farm families across Kansas and Missouri share their learning experiences using both products and practices to optimize production and stewardship. Lenexa, Kan., (Nov. 16, 2022) – Farm Journal’s Trust In Food™ and Valent U.S.A. launched a new video series this month spotlighting row-crop farmers who balance products, technology and conservation practices to optimize […]
Fixing America’s Food Deserts By Investing In The Next Generation
In one of the most productive agriculture states in the country, food insecurity persists in urban areas, but producers in Indianapolis are working together to feed their communities and educate farmers for tomorrow.