Growing Agricultural Innovation Through Conservation Practice Standards: A Roadmap to Increase Technology-Driven Change

U.S. farmers are facing mounting pressures from a growing population, climate change, resource scarcity and increasingly tighter margins. Agricultural innovation offers solutions, but significant barriers still remain in ag-tech adoption at the farm and ranch gate.

There is growing interest in utilizing more innovative conservation practice standards within USDA-NRCS programs to effectively and efficiently address natural resource concerns. This webinar will highlight a recent workshop that convened experts within the industry focused on bringing innovation and transparency to interim and new conservation practice standards. The workshop resulted in key actionable recommendations to be shared with decision makers.

Before the event, we'll publish a report based on that workshop called The Growing Agricultural Innovation Through Conservation Practice Standards: A Roadmap to Increase Technology-Driven Change. In it, you'll find a roadmap for the coalition-driven change needed to grow agriculture innovation, connecting its benefits to conservation and revealing landscape-level benefits that build stronger, more resilient farms, farm families and rural communities.