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Cover Crop Strategies' Best of the Web: Nov. 22, 2024

November 22, 2024

Cover Crop Strategies editors encounter a variety of articles, social media posts, podcasts and videos that offer a unique look at various aspects of our great agricultural industry. Here is our favorite content from the past week. The Best of the Web This Week series is brought to you by Saddle Butte Ag.

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McCormick Joins PepsiCo to Advance Climate-Smart Ag with Soil and Water Outcomes Fund

November 19, 2024 | Posted in Investing in Regenerative Ag

Source: Soil and Water Outcomes Fund

In collaboration with PepsiCo, a global leader in food and beverage, the organizations will provide greater financial and technical support to farmers enrolled in the Midwest Climate-Smart Commodity Program helping to drive adoption of voluntary, regenerative agriculture practices.

How Cover Crops Could Help the Midwestern Agriculture Business

November 18, 2024

Source: The Chicago Council on Global Affairs

As temperatures drop and winter approaches, many Midwesterners are planning for the holidays and eagerly awaiting the first snowfall. For the region’s farmers, though, winter means something else: the off-season, when their fields traditionally lie fallow.

Press Release

Indigo Ag, Truterra Launch Strategic Collaboration to Expand Sustainability Solutions

November 18, 2024 | Posted in Soil Health, Investing in Regenerative Ag

Source: Indigo Ag

The two companies said they will work toward creating a common framework for high-integrity agriculture sustainability programs that effectively responds to the demands of downstream buyers within and beyond the ag value chain by ensuring greater consistency and standardization of ag sustainability outcomes and delivering a broader spectrum of solutions.

Crop Survey Results Show Increase in Cover Cropping, Less Tillage

Survey also shows decreased use of commercial nitrogen

November 16, 2024 | Posted in Soil Health

Source: Iowa Capital Dispatch

Results from the annual Iowa Nutrient Research & Education Council crop survey show Iowa farmers planted more than 3.8 million acres of cover crops in the 2023 crop year.

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Cover Crop Strategies' Best of the Web: Nov. 15, 2024

November 15, 2024

Cover Crop Strategies editors encounter a variety of articles, social media posts, podcasts and videos that offer a unique look at various aspects of our great agricultural industry. Here is our favorite content from the past week. The Best of the Web This Week series is brought to you by Saddle Butte Ag.

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McDonald's & Syngenta Team Up to Create More Sustainable Hamburger

The fast-food giant and meat supplier Lopez Foods will pay farmers to use Syngenta’s Enogen corn to drive feed efficiencies and reduce greenhouse gas emissions

By Nathan Owens posted on November 15, 2024 | Posted in Investing in Regenerative Ag

Source: Agriculture Dive

The fast-food giant and meat supplier Lopez Foods will pay farmers to use Syngenta’s Enogen corn to drive feed efficiencies and reduce greenhouse gas emissions

Initiative Seeks to Double Cover Crops by 2030

November 11, 2024 | Posted in Soil Health, Investing in Regenerative Ag

Source: AgriNews

Farmers for Soil Health empowers farmers to lead the charge in sustainability, putting real money directly into their hands to drive change where it matters most — at the farm level.

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Cover Crop Strategies' Best of the Web: Nov. 8, 2024

November 8, 2024

Cover Crop Strategies editors encounter a variety of articles, social media posts, podcasts and videos that offer a unique look at various aspects of our great agricultural industry. Here is our favorite content from the past week. The Best of the Web This Week series is brought to you by Saddle Butte Ag.