climate change

Stripping Erosion Control to its Bare Essentials

June 25, 2011
Brian DeVore
Food and Sustainable Agriculture, Water
Chippewa 10%, climate change, erosion, Land Stewardship Project, Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture, Matt Helmers, Matt Liebman, Neal Smith National Wildlife Refuge, perennials, praries, profits from perennials, row crops, STRIPs, working farmland

While walking through a knee-high prairie planted on a central Iowa hillside Tuesday, I happened to look down. Trapped amongst all that vegetation was an impressive amount of rich, black glacial soil,…
Relax Farmers: Climate Change is Good for You (Not)

June 17, 2011
Brian DeVore
Food and Sustainable Agriculture, Global Warming
agriculture, biodiversity, climate change, crop yields, diversity, drought, erosion, floods, Green Revolution, hunger, Land Stewardship Project, sustainable farming

In 1989, I worked for a farm magazine that claimed global climate change, if real, would actually be good for agriculture since rising carbon dioxide levels would act as some sort of…
The Danger of Endangered Rivers

June 11, 2010
Brian DeVore
Food and Sustainable Agriculture
A Watershed Year, Cedar River, climate change, Dennis Keeney, diverse farming, floods, Laura Jackson, perennial farming systems, soil erosion, sustainable agriculture

An endangered river is dangerous—the Cedar River proved that exactly two years ago this week.