Incentivizing the implementation of conservation farming practices can be a challenge, but a growing awareness of the role agriculture can play in reducing the impacts of climate change could mean more money in farmers' pockets.
Saskatchewan no-tillers certainly aren’t in a cheerful mood these days when it comes to carbon sequestration. It’s because they recently learned growers who use minimal tillage or low-soil disturbance cropping systems could be shut out of the potentially lucrative Canadian market for carbon credit offsets.
Work being done by a European company’s Earth observation program could unveil insights on how evapotranspiration can be more accurately measured and the data used to help farm management.
While agriculture has been blamed for a significant contribution to global annual CO2 emissions, it also holds enormous potential for regeneration, as degraded soils are capable of drawing down large amounts of atmospheric carbon.
Instead of terminating a cover crop prior to no-tilling corn, soybeans or another crop, more growers are planting through a still growing green cover crop. Seeding a cash crop into a growing green cover crop that may range in height from just a few inches to over 6 feet tall allows both crops to grow longer in the spring.
Clay Pope discusses a new tool created by the USA National Phenology Network to help growers better estimate potential freeze damage to the winter wheat crop.
A specialty grower out West shares his farm’s story about organic production and soil health improvement with the help of no-till practices, cover crops, compost and more.
Insects have historically proven very adept at developing resistance to control measures. A new trait, this one harnessing RNA technology, aims to provide diversity in the modern farmer's pest control toolbox.
On Dec. 11, 2020, President-elect Joe Biden announced his nomination for Secretary of Agriculture, and in doing so announced his plan to make U.S. agriculture the first in the world to achieve net zero emissions by paying farmers to put their land in conservation and plant cover crops.
As we come out on the other side of this historic event, I think it’s only appropriate to ask ourselves what kind of adaptation strategies we used on our farms and ranches and what lessons we learned.
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On this episode of Conservation Ag Update, brought to you by Martin-Till, Brian and Darren Hefty, fourth-generation farmers and hosts of Ag PhD, share tips for treating tar spot in corn.
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