Podcasts
LANDSCAPE PARTNERSHIP PORTAL: A Guide to Workspace Collaboration and Communication Tools
This guide is designed to provide suggested tools to help Partners: develop and deliver science to inform conservation actions at scales that make a lasting difference for people and wildlife; enhance our quality of life, help communities become resilient to environmental change and natural disasters, and sustain the natural and cultural resources we care about; bring together different organizations, expertise, science and sectors to tackle long-term conservation challenges.
Ep. 89 Pheasants Forever And Precision Ag
Ep. 89 Pheasants Forever and Precision Ag Pheasants Forever + Agriculture might not be the first combination you think of, but their similarities are far greater than one might expect. Tanner Bruce, Ag and Conservation Programs Manager at Pheasants Forever, joins podcast host Tony Kramer to talk conservation, precision farming, and the new partnership with Pheasants Forever and John Deere.
Future of Agriculture 165: Irrigating Confidently with Lee Addams of CropMetrics
Lee joins me today to share his passion for improving water irrigation efficiency as well as water sustainability. He describes how he became interested in water irrigation and what led him to work with CropMetrics. He explains how their system works and how it can benefit growers. Lee also discusses what a transaction would look like with a farmer and how they convince them to join.
Big Topsoil Moisture Story is Dryness
A lack of moisture is the big story when looking at the topsoil moisture picture around the country. (Stephanie Ho and USDA meteorologist, Brad Rippey)
A Rise in Farm Use of Computers and Internet Access
USDA's latest look at computer use and internet access on the farm reveals several trends. (Rod Bain and Jody McDaniel of the National Agricultural Statistics Service)
DA Programs to Help Farmers are Not Mutually Exclusive
USDA's host of programs to help farmers may occasionally overlap, but they are not mutually exclusive. (Stephanie Ho and FSA Administrator Richard Fordyce)
Amid Worrisome Signs of Warming, ‘Climate Fatigue’ Sets In
As scientists debate whether climate is changing faster than anticipated, some worry that a drumbeat of dire warnings may be helping to erode U.S. public concerns about global warming
Could climate change capitalism?
Economist Nicholas Stern’s latest book is a rare and masterly synthesis of climate-change science and economics. His ‘global deal’ could change capitalism for the better, says Robert Costanza.
Virtual Hot Spots
Physiological ecologists who design computer models to predict how animals handle heat are forecasting the effects of climate change
