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What Can Farmers Do About Climate Change? Alley Cropping
2017-01-23 16:41:22| National Farmers Union
By Tom Driscoll, Director of Conservation Policy and NFU Foundation The Climate Column has covered many practices supported by the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS). In addition to its own work promoting conservation practices, NRCS also collaborates with the United States Forest Service to provide resources through the National Agroforestry Center (NAC) to help farmers contribute to climate resilience. NAC promotes […]
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What Do Farmers Need to Know About Climate Change? United States Mid-Century Strategy for Deep Decarbonization
2017-01-17 18:41:37| National Farmers Union
By Tom Driscoll, NFU Director of Conservation Policy and Education National Farmers Union (NFU) members understand the negative impacts of climate change are exacerbated by greater concentrations of greenhouse gasses in the Earths atmosphere. Everyone in the world should be concerned about the broad consequences of climate change, but family farmers are particularly worried about the direct impact climate change […]
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Anatomy of a global sea level event during the hot greenhouse climate of the dinosaur age
2017-01-12 23:00:00| LifeSciencesWorld
[NEWS] Global sea level change has generally been considered to be a consequence of the growth and decay of continental ice sheets, which would explain large, rapid changes in sea level, even during the extensive periods of global climatic warmth that prevailed during the age of the dinosaurs. However, such a mechanism is difficult to envision during times of the most extreme global warmth such as the Turonian (93.9-89.8 million years ago), when the equator-to-pole temperature gradient was v…
What Can Farmers Do About Climate Change? Forage and Biomass Planting
2017-01-09 17:57:50| National Farmers Union
By Thomas Driscoll, NFU Director of Conservation Policy and Education Since October, when the Climate Column started featuring ways farmers can address climate change, we have primarily discussed practices to build climate resilience in crop production. There are, of course, many things livestock producers can do about climate change as well. Livestock producers often have […]
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What Can Farmers Do About Climate Change? Vegetative Barriers
2017-01-02 17:00:03| National Farmers Union
By Thomas Driscoll, NFU Director of Conservation Policy and Education Installing vegetative barriers, defined by the US Department of Agriculture Natural Resources Conservation Service (USDA NRCS) as permanent strips of stiff, dense vegetation established along the general contour of slopes or across concentrated areas, is another way producers can adapt to and mitigate climate change. […]
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