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A lack of consensus on how to handle one of the biggest outstanding obstacles to a new farm bill has supporters of the Inflation Reduction Act’s conservation investments preparing to defend the investments in a budget-centric environment.

The Alliance to Advance Climate-Smart Agriculture will pay producers to adopt or maintain practices that curb greenhouse gas emissions, like no till, minimum till, prescribed grazing or cover crops.

The number of farms in the U.S. fell 7% over five years to about 1.9 million in 2022, and the average age of U.S. farmers rose slightly to 58.1, according to the latest Census of Agriculture. 

In this opinion piece, Adam Hardie, Climate and Sustainable Sourcing Lead for Mars Petcare US, Inc. discusses his experience with collaborating with Bayer to support and scale regenerative farming while connecting experts in their field.

In addition to powering all of its facilities with renewable energy and putting energy-efficient practices in place, the company will use farmers’ carbon reductions to lower its overall footprint.

A dozen state ag officials say they are concerned with the role of some of America’s largest lenders in a United Nations coalition that aims to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions of loan portfolios around the world.

Producers participating in the Organic Valley Carbon Insetting Program have begun receiving payments, the cooperative announced Tuesday.

New Grant Offers Producers Funding & Assistance to Implement Climate-Smart Practices

ND Chosen for Alliance to Advance Climate-Smart Agriculture

Dairy Plus Program incentivize projects to increase dry handling, storage of manure or projects to capture methane via digesters.