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Climate-friendly farming strategies can improve the land and generate income for farmers | Opinion Updated 9:28 PM; Today 9:28 PM A prairie strip filled with flowers and wild rye grass between soybean fields on Tim Smith’s farm near Eagle Grove, Iowa, reduces greenhouse gases and stores carbon in the soil. (The Washington Post via Getty Images) Facebook Share Agriculture has not been a central part of U.S. climate policy in the past, even though climate change is altering weather patterns that farmers rely on. Now, however, President Biden has directed the U.S. Department of Agriculture ...

Tyler Harris PRESCRIPTIVE APPROACH: While it’s easy to see conservation practices and production agriculture in separate silos, Pheasants Forever’s Precision Conservation Initiative is one example that demonstrates they can work in tandem. Instead of implementing conservation practices across an entire field, the program uses data to focus on low-yielding areas of fields to boost profitability. Resilient Ag Landscapes: Pheasants Forever initiative uses data to implement conservation practices in low-yielding areas of fields. Crop production and conservation don�...