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Federal grants totaling hundreds of millions of dollars are heading to Chesapeake Bay drainage states as part of an initiative to get farmers and forest landowners to adopt climate-smart practices.

A sub-award of at least $10 million is going to the UH Mānoa College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources.

On Sept. 14, USDA awarded Pasa Sustainable Agriculture up to $55 million to study and promote the widespread adoption of farming practices that reduce or sequester carbon emissions.

Hemp was among the commodities targeted by USDA to develop agricultural markets to sequester greenhouse gases through climate-smart practices.

Oregon State University has been awarded a $50 million grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to work with farmers and Native American Tribes.

Funding of up to $25 million from the U.S. Department of Agriculture will support a new Penn State-led collaboration with dairy industry associations and producers to develop and implement climate-smart

<p><span>Introduction</span></p>
<p><span>Good morning and welcome to the first Market Risk Advisory Committee (MRAC) meeting of 2022.  It is an honor to sponsor this Committee.  The work of the MRAC and the other Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC or Commission) Advisory Committees is critical to the development of the CFTC’s regulations and policies, industry best practice standards, and registrants’ ind...

National Sorghum Producers and Danforth Plant Science Center Collaborate on Climate-Smart Commodities Project Sorghum is an incredible plant that holds

The Rodale Institute was recently awarded a historic grant from the federal government to help provide climate-smart commodities. WDIY’s Sarit Laschinsky has more.

Dairy processor Organic Valley Cooperative received funds from the partnerships for Climate Smart Commodities.