Market surveying Displays Agricultural Lenders Should Be Banking on Soil Health
New statistical surveying shows that Iowa ranchers are interested on working with their banks to more readily comprehend and understand the benefits of soil wellbeing.
Relying upon Soil Health: Farmer Interest in Transition Loan Products, a report directed by horticulture statistical surveying firm Beck Ag as a team with Environmental Defense Fund and The Nature Conservancy, investigates interviews with 100 Iowa ranchers to comprehend their premium in taking on soil wellbeing practices and tests different ways rural moneylenders could uphold the progress.
“Practices that boost soil health allow farmers to improve profitability and crop yield resilience while generating critical environmental benefits,” said Maggie Monast, EDF’s senior director of climate-smart agriculture. “However,...