Enrollment Now Open: Farmers for Soil Health Cover Crop Initiative

October 26, 2024 | Posted in Soil Health

Farmers for Soil Health, a collaboration between the National Corn Growers Association, National Pork Board and United Soybean Board to create a farmer-led cover crop program, has announced enrollment is now open for the second year of the initiative.

Sign-Ups Open for Program Seeking to Double Cover Crop Acres

October 25, 2024 | Posted in Soil Health, Economics

In its first year alone, 238 farmers enrolled, covering more than 78,000 acres, pushing the initiative closer to its goal of doubling cover crop adoption to 30 million acres across the U.S. by 2030.

Iowa Leads Statewide Push Toward National Cover Crop Goal of 30 Million Acres

May 29, 2024 | Posted in Investing in Regenerative Ag

The Iowa Soybean Association, the Iowa Corn Promotion Board, and the Iowa Agriculture Water Alliance are leading a statewide push toward a national cover crop goal of 30 million acres.

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Anheuser-Busch First to Adopt American Farmland Trust’s 'U.S. Farmed' Certification

By Lori Sallet posted on March 25, 2024 | Posted in Investing in Regenerative Ag

Source: American Farmland Trust

Starting with Anheuser-Busch's Busch Light Beer, certification includes new packaging seal for products made with ingredients grown by American farmers.

NCGA Partnership Grant Will Increase Cover Crops, Mitigate Risk

March 17, 2023 | Posted in Soil Health, Investing in Regenerative Ag

Source: National Corn Growers Association

The National Corn Growers Association looks forward to seeing the next steps that will be taken as a part of the Farmers for Soil Health. NCGA is a founding member of FSH, which was awarded the $95 million grant from the USDA’s Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities program that makes this work possible.

Shipping Out, Part 8: Panama Canal Expansion Makes Upper Mississippi River Updates Even More Critical

November 17, 2010

It's hard to believe how much grain needs to be shipped down the Mississippi River to keep the massive elevators in New Orleans working at full capacity. If we're going to double yields over the next few decades, we've also got to invest in new facilities to get these valuable grains to market around the world.

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Ray McCormick’s Conservation Buffer

Earlier this week we paid another visit to this year’s Conservation Ag Operator Fellow, Ray McCormick in Vincennes, Ind., and one thing about Ray is that even when it’s the “off season,” he’s still thinking ahead for next season.

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