Photo courtesy Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship
It’s estimated that 40 percent of Midwest farmland is rented or leased—and that’s been a barrier to increased planting of cover crops, according to Brian Brandt with American Farmland Trust.
“Conservation practices can require additional investments
by either the landowner or the farmer,” Brandt says, “and just because the land
is rented, we don’t have as many conservation practices implemented or
installed on those acres.”
So, Brandt says, AFT is working to “foster conversations”
between farmers and landowners about the economic and environmental benefits of
cover crops and other conservation practices.
Continue reading AFT works to increase cover crops on rented lands at Brownfield Ag News.
