It still surprises me how many people fail to make the connection between conservation/climate-smart ag/soil health and the positive impact good natural resource management can have on your bottom line.

Things definitely change at the 100th meridian. The question now seems to be if that dividing line is slowly moving east.

The most recent report from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is the most strident released by the IPCC yet, saying that it is “unequivocal” that human influence has warmed the global climate system, with observed changes already impacting every region on the planet with some of the changes researchers observed in the climate described as “unprecedented.”

One size does not fit all when it comes to trying to make changes that help agriculture adapt to our changing climate.

In case you missed it last week, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack announced that USDA is making available cost-share funds to help farmers and ranchers implement climate-smart agriculture practices in their operations through the implementation of the over $19 billion that was appropriated to the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) as part of the Inflation Reduction Act.

The sustainability train is still running. We need to figure out how to get on board — or at least stay off the tracks.