Agriculture & Climate Change

The effects of climate change are becoming clear across rural America. Rising average temperatures, shifting precipitation patterns, changing growing seasons, increasingly frequent and severe weather events, and rising sea levels are making it more difficult to grow food, fuel, and fiber. These difficulties will only intensify over time.
However, farmers and ranchers hold immense power to address this crisis-as many already are. They have implemented conservation practices that build soil health, which make the land more resilient to extreme weather and help to sequester carbon. They are also adopting climate-smart practices that reduce consumption of fossil fuels and inputs.
Learn more at www.wisconsinfarmersunion.com... and nfu.org/climate-change/

[@GoCanucks2011]

Awesome video! Thank you for this important message!

[@swrtsolutionsinc.1092]

irrigation+rainfall = evaporation + transpiration + runoff + leaching
Which one of these processes do Farmers really have control over during the growing season? If you have the ability to irrigate your sandy soils and water is cheap and plentiful, then you are fortunate and have some control on the left side of the equation. If you do not have irrigation, you must look at the factors on the right side of the equation to see what can be controlled or minimized to benefit your crop. Evaporation from the soil surface can be reduced with mulch or leaving crop residue on the soil surface. Transpiration is a function of the plant leaf surface area and the weather. Runoff is or should be minimal in sandy textured soils with high percolation rates.
This leaves the leaching of water out of the root zone as the #1 controllable loss of moisture to your crop. Interrupting the downward movement of moisture in your soil by installing a "smart" barrier can greatly reduce the leaching of water and nutrients. SWRT subsurface membranes detain/retain up to 90% of irrigation or rainfall in the root zone for crop use by disrupting the gravitational movement of water in the soil while still allowing excess water to percolate and do not create anaerobic soil conditions.

[@donovanjones4175]

Why not turn earth over, don’t till. There are farms in Vermont raising the yield by going back 100 years. Agri business is the wrong way to go.

[@nripenshenoy3238]

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[@samtalksaboutlife464]

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[@kaitlindeshane3]

Awesome video! I'll be sharing it with my students :)

[@kelliboylen8251]

Thank you for this important message! Thank you for caring about the future! We hope others in the ag community will follow your lead and start having these conversations.

[@gregverhasselt8357]

Lots of pieces to the puzzle

[@fishfarmingwestbengal1998]

Very good

[@kunalswargiary7124]

Yeah. Its important to pay attention to the problem of the natural world 🍅🌾🌱✌️❤️

[@Divinity626]

#savesoil #consciousplanet

[@snowmiser4893]

That's the smartest bestest bunch of farmers I ever seen.

[@rodrigodemiguel7381]

I bet their products are expensive as hell

[@samhill5102]

These people don't understand. Its not a solution that the world be looking for.......it obedience. Obey or die.

[@ga4914]

NAH

[@jamesruscheinski8602]

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[@richardcowley4087]

will you lot stop these manipulative lies ?

[@alivecorps8406]

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