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Sustainable Agriculture: Ensuring Future Generations' Needs. A Field-to-Market Approach

Learn about sustainability in agriculture - From decreased chemical use to enhancing soil health and water efficiency, discover the key practices shaping a sustainable future for farming. Explore Field to Market's initiatives and how technology is improving crop yields while preserving the environment.

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Sustainable Agriculture: Ensuring Future Generations' Needs. A Field-to-Market Approach

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  1. Sustainability Acting as good stewards of the land

  2. What’s Sustainability? Sustainability is meeting the needs of the present while improving the ability of future generations to meet their own needs

  3. What’s Sustainability? Decreased use of pesticides and fertilizers, decreased erosion, decreased water and fuel use, decreased emissions Yields continue to increase

  4. Pesticide Use Trends Increasing adoption of hybrids with insect-resistant and herbicide-tolerant traits have greatly reduced the need for synthetic applications of herbicides and insecticides. Insecticide Pounds Per Acre Herbicide Pounds Per Acre Source: USDA

  5. Corn Growers Become More Efficient With Nitrogen Source: Blue, Johnson & Assoc. Inc.

  6. Corn Growers Become More Efficient With Phosphate Source: Blue, Johnson & Assoc. Inc.

  7. Corn Growers Become More Efficient With Potash Source: Blue, Johnson & Assoc. Inc.

  8. Soil Disruption NOTE: DOES NOT INCLUDE OTHER CONSERVATION TILLAGE PRACTICES SUCH AS LOW-TILL, RIDGE-TILL, ETC. Source: CTIC

  9. Cropland Erosion Tons Per Acre Source: USDA

  10. Water Use for Corn Nearly nine out of ten acres of corn require no water other than natural rainfall 13% Irrigated 87%Non-Irrigated Source: USDA

  11. Field to Market Field to Market: The Keystone Alliance for Sustainable Agriculture is a collaborative stakeholder group involving producers, agribusinesses, food and retail companies, and conservation organizations striving to develop a supply chain system for agricultural sustainability.

  12. Field to Market • The primary objectives of Field to Market are: • To identify criteria for sustainable agriculture that are open to the full range of agricultural technology choices; • To support the implementation of production systems that lead to broad performance improvements against these criteria.

  13. First Report • Released in 2009 • Looked at environmental resource indicators in five areas: • water use and quality • land use and biodiversity • soil loss • energy use • climate impact

  14. Corn’s Impacts, 1987-2007

  15. Corn’s Impacts, 1987-2007

  16. What’s Helped?

  17. Precision Farming

  18. No-Till Farming

  19. Biotech Corn 2000-2010 Percentage of Corn Acres Planted Source: USDA, 6/30/2010

  20. Drought Tolerance Benefits: Up to 25% yield recovery vs. control under moderate/severe drought Improved water utilization in water use restricted areas Launch: 2011, Native traits

  21. Corn Yields on Increase Bushels per Acre Source: USDA, 6/10/2010

  22. Thank You

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