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Reposted from the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)
\n<\/a>June 6th, 2013<\/span><\/em><\/h4>\n

Yesterday, speaking at the National Press Club, USDA Secretary Vilsack addressed the\u00a0present and future challenges in agriculture brought on by our changing climate<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 challenges \u201cnew and different than anything we\u2019ve ever tackled.\u201d\u00a0 The Secretary recognized the unique regional challenges that farmers and ranchers are experiencing around the country \u2013 extreme precipitation in the Northeast, drought in the West and Southwest, and increasing temperatures across the board \u2013 and emphasized the need to adapt to these, and other, climate change effects.\u00a0 The Secretary additionally recognized agriculture\u2019s potential to mitigate greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, in particular by storing (or sequestering) carbon in soils.<\/p>\n

In his speech, the Secretary announced three new measures that USDA will take to help farmers toward these goals: (1) Regional Climate Hubs, (2) NRCS Soil Carbon Management and Evaluation Tools, and (3) Cover Crop Guidelines.<\/p>\n

Regional Climate Hubs<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Through\u00a0Regional Climate Hubs<\/a>, USDA aims to help farmers, ranchers, and forest landowners develop adaptation strategies by providing regionally-specific risk and vulnerability assessments.\u00a0 These Hubs will likely be located in existing USDA service centers, but may also operate in collaboration with Land Grand and Public Universities, Extension offices, and Agricultural Experiment Stations to improve forecasting and develop and provide science-based risk management tools.<\/p>\n

NRCS Soil Carbon Tools<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

This measure focuses on two new online tools relating to agriculture\u2019s ability to sequester carbon in the soil.\u00a0 The first tool is an online database that provides access to the results of NRCS\u2019\u00a0Rapid Carbon Assessment\u00a0\u2013 a soil survey containing over 144,000 samples at 6,000 locations across the country.\u00a0 This tool is geared toward scientists and researchers looking to investigate regional variations in soil carbon, land use, and management and conservation practices.<\/p>\n

The second tool \u2013 the\u00a0Carbon Management and Evaluation Tool (or \u201cCOMET-Farm\u201d)<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 provides an online platform for farmers to analyze the GHG footprint of their operations.\u00a0 Using COMET-Farm, farmers can input information on their specific operation and management practices and then generate an analysis of the GHG emissions and carbon sequestration that could result by implementing various conservation practices.<\/p>\n

Cover Crops<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

The third measure is the result of an inter-agency project among USDA\u2019s NRCS, Risk Management Agency (RMA), and Farm Service Agency (FSA) to establish\u00a0guidelines for terminating cover crops while retaining eligibility for RMA and FSA programs<\/a>.\u00a0 In addition to carbon sequestration, cover crops provide other benefits, such as preventing erosion and improving soil health, yet crop insurance and commodity payment programs have been structured in a way that discourage farmers from planting cover crops.\u00a0 NRCS, RMA, and FSA \u2013 together with stakeholders, universities, and industry groups \u2013 developed a science-based guidance to provide consistency across USDA programs and assurance to farmers who want to plant cover crops and remain eligible for crop insurance and commodity program payments.<\/p>\n

Under existing RMA and FSA rules, producers risk losing access to crop insurance and some commodity support programs if they fail to terminate planted cover crops by a certain date.\u00a0 However, the dates and rules relating to termination have been inconsistent both within and across regions.\u00a0 In the past, some FSA and RMA regional offices have periodically issued special provisions to modify termination dates.\u00a0 The new USDA inter-agency guidance establishes\u00a0cover crop kill dates across four zones.<\/p>\n

A More Sustainable Agriculture<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

As NSAC has noted in our\u00a0Agriculture and Climate Change Position Paper<\/a>\u00a0and in letters toCongress<\/a>, not only do sustainable and organic agricultural systems offer the most resilience for agricultural production in the face of increasingly uncertain regional climate effects, but these practices can also mitigate GHGs.\u00a0 Sustaining and expanding programs that support diversified sustainable and organic agriculture and additional conservation measures \u2013 including preventing erosion and wetland draining by re-linking conservation requirements to crop insurance subsidies \u2013 as well as investing in on-farm energy efficiency and appropriate renewable energy generation, will improve farmers\u2019 and ranchers\u2019 ability to focus on adaptation while providing mitigation benefits as well.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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