Items Tagged with 'no-till'

The Treasury Department released long-awaited guidance for a new tax credit for sustainable aviation fuel. Ethanol-derived SAF would be eligible as long as the corn is produced with three climate-smart farming practices. 

The Environmental Protection Agency may have to back off its proposed mitigation measures for atrazine because of serious questions about research on the herbicide’s impacts on aquatic life.

A grim future awaits American agriculture if glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup, is no longer available to growers, a new report concludes.

Truterra paid more than $5.1 million to farmers last year to store carbon, bringing the total for the first two years of its program to over $9 million, the company said Wednesday.

In this opinion piece, Lynn Tjeerdsma with the AGree Economic and Environmental Risk Coalition discusses the newly released findings of the Conservation and Crop Insurance Research Pilot project. 

A historic study of USDA’s farmer records showed that cover crops and conservation tillage could significantly lower crop insurance claims in some cases, but the research also identified some key gaps in the department’s massive databases.