Groups Call for Climate-Smart Investments, Including Broadband

The National Milk Producers Federation and the National Council of Farmer Cooperatives led a coalition of 12 agricultural and conservation organizations in a letter on investments. They’re advocating for significant new funding for climate-smart agricultural practices that can help farmers to build on their environmental stewardship leadership. The groups said much more can be done to enhance practices that can yield meaningful environmental benefits, such as climate-smart manure and feed management on dairy farms.

“Bolstering conservation investment and focusing on climate-smart practices better positions dairy farmers to fulfill the dairy sector’s 2050 environmental stewardship goals as envisioned in the Net Zero Initiative,” said NMPF CEO Jim Mulhern.

In addition to increased spending on conservation incentives, the organizations also support new rural broadband resources in pending infrastructure legislation. The letter also brings up the major concerns that many of its signers have already voiced regarding several proposed changes to tax policy that would undermine the transfer of family farms from one generation to the next.

Other organizations signing on to the letter include the Ag Retailers Association, the American Seed Trade Association, the National Association of Conservation Districts, and many others. Click Here to read the entire letter.

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