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Sea level rise from climate change could turn up to 65 million people living on islands into refugees over the coming decades, adding to an already enormous refugee crisis. Farmers on coastal lands may also be affected.

Scope 3 is all the buzz lately in the world of sustainability. A company’s emissions are broken down into three scopes. Scope 3 covers indirect emissions from a company’s upstream and downstream supply chain.  

With another round of frigid temperatures blanketing the U.S. again, what's behind the cold? Here's a hint: it's not El Niño.

Vertical tillage is not a single tool or a single pass — it's a comprehensive system, says Ken Ferrie. Here’s what you need to understand about a vertical tillage system and the first step of removing horizontal layers.

COP28's decision to not include food and agriculture as a way to meet climate goals was influenced by a request from the G77 group of developing countries for additional review related to agriculture and food.

Evidence indicates that droughts have occurred more frequently and or lasted longer around the world due to climate change. Farmers have some options from existing technology to adapt, but more research is needed.

What is vertical farming and how can it set you up for future government incentives? Ken Ferrie, Farm Journal field agronomist, explains it often requires mixing and matching tools for primary and secondary tillage.

As extreme weather events affect the profitability of agriculture, here are four areas to bring focus to the ripple effect.

Tune in to this webinar to hear insights from industry pros

The combination of a new El Nino episode and the ongoing effects of climate change have contributed to many severe weather events this year, with detrimental effects for global agriculture.

An ongoing lack of water and volatile prices bring heightened focus on fertilizer and nutrient management. They are critical components to creating a more resilient ag production system, says one industry agronomist.   

Arizona is breaking records for consecutive days with temperatures 110 degrees or above. Yuma County, Arizona farmer John Boelts says he always plans for high heat in July and grow crops like cotton instead of lettuce.

USDA looks to improve the future measure, monitoring, reporting and verification of ag climate emissions via a $300 million investment announced on Wednesday.

The challenges of rice production amid climate change have farmers innovating worldwide. One emerging technology is gene-edited rice that reduces methane emissions.

Senate Ag Chair Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.) opened the door to shifting almost $20 billion from her party’s climate and tax credit law enacted last year to more general spending in the upcoming farm bill.

The agency recently launched a new initiative called Acres. Scientists plan for the data gathered through the program to help farmers with all kinds of decisions, from water use to what crops to plant and when.

“We can't prioritize one natural resource concern over all others and we shouldn't prioritize one solution above all others,” Rep. G.T. Thompson (R-Pa.) said.

John Kerry, Special Presidential Envoy for Climate, says ag need to be "front and center" as the climate solution.

Politicians, scientists, and celebs assure us the apocalypse is tomorrow, and if not, the day after will do. Buckle up for a look at 50 years of cataclysmic predictions.

Released in March, the sixth IPCC assessment report finds that the planet is likely to exceed the 1.5 degree C warming target established in the Paris Accord, which will put more stress on the global agricultural sector.

The unfortunate reality is that agriculture’s current focus on water issues has been drowned out by all the noise surrounding greenhouse gas mitigation and climate change.

It's been a wet spring for many parts of the Corn Belt, and John Phipps says one of the advantages of his advancing age is the ability to start worrying earlier.

We live in a world of water scarcity—and water will become only more precious as the global population swells beyond 8 billion people and the climate continues to change in unpredictable ways.

To put cover crop investments in motion, NRCS would draw on federal, state and private conservationists to hire “thousands” of employees for rural America.

A Senate Ag Committee hearing Thursday on the new farm bill raised a issue that is now evident: the Title 1 farm bill safety net can no longer deal with the current ag environment.

United Airlines is teaming up with a corn ethanol maker in a bid to ramp up production of green jet fuel to deal with carbon credits and climate change by 2028.

The House on Friday averted a government shutdown by voting 225 to 201 in favor of the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023—the omnibus spending bill. Here's what's in it for ag.

Text of the $1.7 trillion omnibus spending package was released early Tuesday morning. The Senate will vote first and intends to pass the measure before Thursday, leaving the House no time to demand changes.

Members of the bloc agreed on how to create a tool that will force foreign companies to pay for the cost of their carbon emissions.

Funding will be drawn from the Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC), a development that has caught lawmakers’ attention.

“We rely on the support of farm bill funding and programs to ensure continued U.S. leadership as the provider of the best seed to the world," said Katy Rainey, Purdue associate professor, at the Senate Ag hearing.

International Energy Agency sees an extra 2,400 gigawatts of capacity coming online worldwide over the next five years, with renewables surpassing coal as the largest source of global power generation by 2025.

This year's COP (27th) marked a turning point in the global attitude toward agriculture's ability to help mitigate climate change. New resources are being deployed to help that effort.

EPA says the proposals would collectively reduce 36 million tons of methane emissions between 2023 and 2035, which it says is almost the equivalent of GHG emissions emitted from all U.S. coal power plants in 2020.

This blog summarizes remarks given by USAID Administrator Samantha Power at last month's World Food Prize events in Des Moines, Iowa.

According to Japan, the green legislation includes "discriminatory" subsidies that would make Americans more likely to buy from local electric vehicle manufacturers.

The robust agricultural sector in the Western U.S. is at risk due to low water flows in the Colorado River system, which has fallen due to extended droughts resulting from climate change.

This post summarizes the agricultural provisions of the Inflation Reduction Plan, aimed at encouraging greater participation in climate change mitigation efforts by farmers, ranchers, and rural businesses and residents.

Intentional or not, humans have helped shape today’s weather patterns. Now they’re looking at technology to protect their future.

Research suggests that climate change is already having an impact on the availability of pollination from both commercial beehives and wild pollinator species such as butterflies and non-honeybee bee species.

Women in agriculture lag their male counterparts in accessing resources and knowhow on their farms, as well as in receiving recognition of their work. Out of 50 World Food Prize laureates, only nine have been women.

Ted McKinney, NASDA CEO, led the climate conversation with a diverse list of speakers. From wildfires to water quality, each corner of the nation spoke to their state’s ag adversity, and their work in overcoming it.

By any measure, natural disasters have increased in both frequency and severity around the world over the last several decades, in ways clearly linked to the advancing impacts of climate change.

Last year was hot. It was so hot, 2021 now holds the record for the hottest ocean temperatures ever.

Mark Mills, senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, recently joined Chip Flory on AgriTalk to talk about the logistics and supply chain challenges ahead for electric vehicles.

Economic damage to U.S. agriculture from invasive species, estimated at more than $120 billion annually, is likely to worsen as climate change facilitates an expansion of the zones where such species can thrive.

Climate change is real. While we can---and do---take steps to mitigate it, adaptation is equally important. Farmers have been, are, and will be doing both.

In the EU, unfortunately, regulators have blocked farmers from planting the best seeds, developed with science-based gene technologies that allow producers to grow more food on less land than ever before.

Chip Flory and Jim Wiesemeyer recap last week's Day of Ethanol on AgriTalk and discuss where other fossil fuels may stand. Plus, when will the latest Infrastructure bill(s) be voted on in the House?

As the 26th COP meetings commence in Glasgow, Scotland this week, it is important that policymakers take into account the positive contribution that proper management of soils can provide addressing climate change.