Posts Tagged: commodity programs

Cover Crops: Insuring Against Disaster

Posted April 7th, 2014 by Brian DeVore, Land Stewardship Project & filed under agriculture, Food and Sustainable Agriculture, Loon Commons blog.

Thanks to the recently passed 2014 Farm Bill, federally subsidized crop insurance is an even bigger player in determining what the landscape looks like. That’s troubling, considering that in recent… Read more »

Let’s Stop Treating Soil Conservation Like Dirt

Posted April 15th, 2011 by Brian DeVore, Land Stewardship Project & filed under Food and Sustainable Agriculture.

Here’s the bad news: it turns out the USDA’s estimates that soil erosion rates are under control across the Corn Belt—something we reported in this blog last June—are probably overly… Read more »