Researchers estimate ethanol contributes at least 24% more greenhouse gas emissions than regular gasoline, based on price-driven land use changes. Critics say no-till could make all the difference.

No-Till Farmer’s annual benchmark survey received 480 responses from growers in the U.S. and Canada. Results showed the ongoing strength of the no-till movement as the 60th anniversary of the commercial launch of the practice will be marked later this year.

Landowners agreed that the relationship with tenants can be fraught, and frequent conversations outside of the discussion about the rent check can help make discussions about practices easier to begin.

Have you adopted, or are you willing to adopt, new practices to qualify for a carbon sequestration program?

Dan Gillespie was also known as "Dan The Tree Man" in Battle Creek, after 30 years of classroom planting demonstrations with fourth-, fifth- and sixth-grade students in local schools.

Amid drone footage of industrial scale Ag facilities, footage of Senate Agricultural Committee member Sen. Corey Booker (D-NJ) looking concerned on a couch when he clearly had other things to do, a bearded man eating what appeared to be the same piece of steak several times, and some earnest-sounding lawyers, a voiceover contrasted the national discourse over the environment with what aims to be a serious discussion about agriculture and America's food chain.

Projects must focus on the on-farm, on-ranch or forest production of commodities and show reductions of greenhouse gas (GHG) emission or carbon sequestration as a benefit. The project description specifically mentions cover crops, no-till and low-till among the projects favored for selection, but indicates they won’t be enough by themselves.