How Can Dairy Producers Utilize Carbon Credits to Benefit Climate and Their Bottom Lines? Innovation Center for U.S. Dairy Has Answers
Innovation Center for U.S. Dairy, an America’s Conservation Ag Movement partner, unveiled some big moves in the private sector that may make it easier for dairy producers to capitalize on carbon credits to benefit both climate and their bottom lines. In their latest Member Discovery Series webinar, Newtrient COO Chris Kopman discussed a partnership made […]
<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.
Video: Syngenta’s Chris Cook Discusses How Small Changes Can Yield Big Impact
Trust In Beef partner discusses how technical support can help producers identify and assess areas for incremental improvement.
<strong>The Carbon Games: Agricultural Producers Still Looking for the Leaderboard</strong>
Producers struggle to understand or see value in carbon markets.
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.
<strong>Farmer Panel: Climate-Smart Program Rewards Must Outweigh Risks To Earn Grower Participation</strong>
When an attendee of the 2023 Trust In Food Symposium addressed the three farmers speaking on stage this Monday, he said what other members of the audience likely were thinking. “You all are hitting us with a dose of reality that I believe is badly needed in the conservation community,” the audience member said. He […]
<strong>Indiana Farmers Seek Soil Health Insights During Perkins’ Good Earth Farm Visit</strong>
This guest commentary was written by Kevin Allison, urban soil health specialist with the Marion County Soil and Water Conservation District (SWCD) in Indiana. Allison and colleagues participated in a soil health-focused farm tour supported by America’s Conservation Ag Movement (ACAM). Trust In Food organizes ACAM alongside Farm Journal Foundation with financial and technical support […]
Dairy Farm CEO Offers Practical Advocacy Tips
As a third-generation dairy farmer, Sutton Rucks of Milking R Dairy, Inc., in Okeechobee, Fla., is always looking for ways to grow the business he’s been part of since his pre-teen years. A pivotal moment several years ago prompted his family to focus more time and investment in advocacy for dairy farming and outreach to […]