Officials visit area farm as commodity partnership projects begin
The new “Farmers for Soil Health Climate-Smart Commodities Partnership” project is now in gear after several organizations banded together to incentivize and support farming practices across the country. On Wednesday, Sept. 21, representatives from the USDA, the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, the United Soybean Board, National Pork Board, National Corn Growers Association, and the Farmers for Soil Health visited Bredehoeft Farms Inc., located south of Alma, to talk further about the projects in Missouri. “We already know that agriculture is already doing things that are beneficial to the climate – low carbon biofuels, conservation, tillage, cover crops …” Robert Bonnie, the USDA Under Secretary for Farm Production and Conservation, said.
