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American Farmland Trust Launches Advanced Soil Health Training for Strip-Till 'Influencers'

AFT will sponsor and train soil health advisors who can share their expertise with their communities to support the scaling-up of climate-smart agricultural practices

April 12, 2024 | Posted in Strip-Till Farming 101

American Farmland Trust's one-year Advanced Soil Health Training course is made up of four two-day in-person, in-region training sessions in the Midwest, Southeast, Mid-Atlantic, New York, and New England.

How to get No-Tillers on Board for Carbon Contracts

By Todd Janzen posted on September 26, 2022 | Posted in Nutrient Management, Soil Health

A group of companies called the Agricultural Climate Market Collaborative believes that lack of “transparency” is one of major road blocks to acceptance. To address transparency, the Collaborative developed eleven principles to guide carbon ecosystem marketers when forming these new contracts with growers.

Seize More Carbon with the Carbon Reduction Potential Evaluation (CaRPE) Tool

September 24, 2020 | Posted in Cover Crops

American Farmland Trust shares publicly its CaRPE Tool, a web-based interactive tool that allows users to quickly visualize and quantify net greenhouse gas, or GHG, emission reductions resulting from the implementation of cropland and grazing land management practices.

New American Farmland Trust-NRCS Case Studies Show Soil Health Practices Increase Farm Profitability

July 30, 2019 | Posted in Soil Health

Evidence of the economic benefits of healthy soil will help farmers embrace conservation on more land, sooner.

Illinois Incentivizes Planting Fall Cover Crops in 2020 Budget

Crop Insurance Reward Pilot Program promotes cover crops as an in-field management practice.

June 3, 2019 | Posted in Seeding & Planting, Cover Crops, Nutrient Management, Soil Health

Source: American Farmland Trust press release

The Illinois Department of Agriculture will adopt and implement a crop insurance reward program for cover crops that American Farmland Trust and a coalition of agriculture, environmental and conservation organizations developed.

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