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Opinion: Using retail agricultural suppliers to move to wholesale conservation adoption

04/12/24 3:03 PM By Roger Wolf Alex Echols,

In this joint opinion piece, Alex Echols, environment Program Strategist for Agriculture for the Keith Campbell Foundation, and Roger Wolf, executive director of the Agriculture’s Clean Water Alliance and director of conservation at the Iowa Soybean Association Research Center for Farming Innovation, discuss engaging ag retailers to be key leaders in advancing conservation adoption.

Drainage management touted to reduce runoff, GHGs

04/19/23 6:22 AM By Steve Davies

Proponents of conservation drainage management got a bit of good news recently about the $19.5 billion allocated in the Inflation Reduction Act: The Natural Resources Conservation Service said CDM practices could be eligible for some of that money.

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November 03, 2024

Agri-Pulse Open Mic: Kip Eideberg, Association of Equipment Manufacturers

This week’s Open Mic guest is Kip Eideberg, Senior Vice-President Government and Industry Relations for the Association of Equipment Manufacturers. Like the industries they serve, equipment manufacturers are familiar with the cyclical turns in farming, forestry, construction and mining. Eideberg says higher interest rates, a lack of trade agreements and sluggish economies around the globe and in the U.S. are proving challenging for the customers to make capital purchases. Eideberg is hopeful Congress will bring a new farm bill in the Lame Duck session or at least early next year. He says tax policy will also be critical next year as both industry and customers need amended policy on deductions for research as well as depreciation.

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Agri-Pulse Newsmakers: Nov. 1, 2024: WFP Laureate Cary Fowler at Borlaug Dialogue

2024 World Food Prize laureates Cary Fowler and Geoffrey Hawtin were honored for their life work protecting crop biodiversity at the Borlaug International Dialogue. We asked Fowler about the creation of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault.

Then, Jim Snee, CEO of Hormel, and his wife Tammy discuss Hormel’s Hometown Food Security Project, and Manuel Otero, IICA director general, spoke on farmers’ challenges to adopt new technology.

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