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by
Dr. Steve Suppan
A 2021 study estimates that companies whose equity shares trade on regulated exchanges account for about 40% of all planet-warming greenhouse gases (GHG) emissions.
Greenhouse gasses
by
Ben Lilliston
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) reported today that greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from agriculture fell in 2022, even as overall United States emissions rose.
cows and nutrient management
The following op-ed was originally published by Food Tank on April 10, 2024. 
Concurso de la Mazorca más Larga del Mundo
Mexican civil society groups with their allies in the United States and Canada provided statements to the official U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) trade dispute process defending Mexico’s right to limit genetically modified (GM) corn and glyphosate.
Corn field
MINNEAPOLIS—A new report from the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) finds that an outsized share of the funding for the conservation program Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) financed expensive practices with little or no conservation benefits, while two-thirds of farmer applicants were rejected from the program
by
Michael Happ
This report takes a close look at the Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP), a farmer-focused conservation cost-share program. In the report, we examine the agricultural practices that EQIP helps farmers finance, how much funding went toward these practices in Fiscal Year 2023, including additional funding through the Inflation Reduction Act.
Methane Digester
by
Michael Happ
The following comment was sent to Deputy Chief, Science and Technology Noller Herbert and National Climate Coordinator Dana Ashford-Kornburger of the Natural Resources Conservation Service of the United States Department of Agriculture on March 15, 2024.  Deputy Chief Herbert and Coordinator Ashford-Kornburger,
Un análisis de la respuesta de México en la disputa del T-MEC
Field worker bagging maize ears