| | | | | | | Reflections On Earth Day 2021 | | | It seems that everything is coming up carbon these days. I had the pleasure of moderating a Farm Country Update on this very topic, where we examined what we do, and don’t, know about what the future holds. Check out the video at the link below. As we get ready to celebrate the 51st Earth Day, I am encouraged by the notion of American farmers and ranchers being part of a nationwide commitment to turn the tide on climate change. Pragmatically, however, I see how much work there is yet to do to make that vision a reality. We must empower producers with the information and support they need to participate in these nascent markets. And we must be ruthless in identifying and removing barriers. Stay tuned for much more on those topics from Trust In Food in the coming months. In the meantime, I hope you enjoy the bounty of nature on Earth Day, and every day.
Yours In Regenerative Ag, Amy Skoczlas Cole
Executive Vice President
Trust In Food, a Farm Journal initiative
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| | | | | | | Watch Our Carbon Markets Webinar On Demand | | | Shared by Rhonda Brooks, Content Projects Manager, Farm Journal: U.S. farms are poised to become environmental solutions providers, with big potential to sequester carbon. But navigating this complex ecosystem will require careful planning and understanding. As U.S. agriculture continues to find clarity on the potential of carbon markets, growing global demand for sustainability is driving the industry closer to solutions. What are the latest and most promising trends? Watch this replay of our latest Farm Country Update webinar as USDA's Robert Bonnie, The Nature Conservancy's Kris Johnson, Iowa farmer Mitchell Hora and Oregon rancher Kelley Delpit share how they're thinking about these key issues.
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| | | | | | | U.S. Farmers And UN SDGs: A Market Access Opportunity | | | Shared by Jay Vroom, Chairman, Trust In Food and America’s Conservation Ag Movement Board of Advisers: It’s easy for many U.S. farmers and other agriculture professionals to pooh-pooh the UN SDGs as more internationalist pablum. Yet a more helpful approach to strengthen and grow our country’s access to global markets might be to embrace the SDGs as a framework for understanding what U.S. farmers can be doing to integrate sustainability into their operations to meet the needs of global buyers of food, fuel and fiber.
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| | Shared by Nate Birt, Vice President, Trust In Food: U.S. farmers are central to the dairy industry’s environmental stewardship successes—and to its commitment to continuous improvement, says Heather Oldani, executive vice president of corporate communications at Dairy Management Inc. On April 22—Earth Day—she's encouraging dairy farmers to amplify the global conversation about environmental stewardship by sharing what they are doing on their operations. | | |
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| | Shared by Drew Slattery, Human Dimensions of Change Lead, Trust In Food: In this op-ed, President Rod Snyder of Field to Market: The Alliance for Sustainable Agriculture outlines some of the more important unresolved issues surrounding carbon and other ecosystem services markets. Among the issues on his list are the need for precompetitive metrics along with systems that avoid double-counting of environmental benefits that could jeopardize truthful claims and hurt public faith in the outcomes ag is capable of providing. Snyder's vision is optimistic and pragmatic -- a welcome balance.
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| | Shared by Kinsie Rayburn, Conservation Knowledge Officer, Trust In Food: NASA Harvest is teaming up with CropX to monitor and analyze soil health and nutrient management impacts on cropland acres. Here's how they're working with alfalfa farms in Arizona to test and fine-tune the process.
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