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Polling: Majority of Farmers Want Congress to Grow Voluntary Farm Bill Conservation Commitments

By Mike Saccone 

A strong majority of crop farmers in the United States, by a more than four-to-one margin, want Congress to strengthen funding for voluntary conservation programs in the 2023 Farm Bill. The polling found that 74 percent of farmers support increasing voluntary USDA conservation program funding; 16 percent oppose increasing funding.

“Farmers know better than anyone how conservation practices not only are good for their farms, but also for protecting clean water, healthy soils, and thriving lands,” said Julie Sibbing, associate vice president for land stewardship at the National Wildlife Federation.

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This is Making Harvest a Pain!

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Harvesting the soybean fields this year feels more like driving our farm equipment through a maze than a field, because of the 13 inches of rain in June and replanted areas. Join me today as I take the reins of the combine and harvest the areas of the fields that are dry. Learn about why we drive around the wet soybeans and the current plan to harvest them. Also, see John Deere's Machine Sync in use between the combine and the grain cart tractor. It's pretty evident that harvesting the soybeans this year is going to take longer than years past because of how much our productivity is lessened due to all the extra turning around and driving in a random fashion.