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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Saturday, March 08, 2025
Two soil conservation leaders discuss the recent blinding dust storm that caused fatal highway crashes in central Illinois and what they hope it means for the future of agriculture and farm policy.
Time is growing short to address global climate change, whose impacts are being seen in more extreme weather events such as drought and heavier precipitation, and changes to agricultural practices could take decades to have an impact on carbon emissions, a new report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says.
A hot topic among farmers is soil health; a relatively new concept that emphasizes improving not just the chemistry of soil, but its biology and physiology.