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USB: Agriculture can help resolve climate change

The chair of the United Soybean Board says global food systems and climate-smart solutions go hand in hand.

Meagan Kaiser tells Brownfield it all starts at the farm level. “In the decisions that we make every day to not only provide a nutritious and well-balanced crop, but to take care of our land. US soy farmers are the most efficient in the world. We’re able to do those things and feed people at the same time.”

She says more and more farmers are adopting conservation practices. “Now we’re able to utilize precision agriculture, we’re able to overlay our harvest data with our soil test data with our in-season applications. And we can say, hey, when we did this, we got that.”

Kaiser says climate-smart agriculture also helps improve efficiency when feeding a hungry world.