drought

Cover Crops: Insuring Against Disaster

April 7, 2014
Brian DeVore
agriculture, Food and Sustainable Agriculture, Loon Commons blog
2014 Farm Bill, climate change, commodity programs, cover crops, crop insurance, diversity, drought, Gabe Brown, Land Stewardship Project, mob grazing, RMA, SARE, soil erosion, soil health

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 years that…
Grazing, Cover Crops, Climate Change & Resilience

August 14, 2013
Brian DeVore
agriculture, climate change, Food and Sustainable Agriculture, Global Warming, Loon Commons blog
Burleigh County North Dakota, cover crops, drought, Early Boots Farm, Farm Beginnings, global climate change, Land Stewardship Project, Marsden Farm, Peter Donovan, Soil Carbon Challenge, Soil Carbon Coalition, soil erosion, soil health, sustainable agriculture, Tyler Carlson

The best farming system in the world means little if it isn’t resilient enough to bounce back from all the nastiness nature can toss its way. That’s become painfully clear in recent…
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…