By Nick Tindall, AEM Senior Director of Regulatory Affairs and Ag Coverage
Starvation is the best menace to the atmosphere.
Why chances are you’ll be asking? As a result of hungry folks do determined issues. As a result of till you will have sufficient to eat, every thing else is a small drawback.
These factors are too typically an underappreciated element within the sustainable agriculture debate. Right this moment, a serious focus of the agricultural group is to arrange to supply for a world with 9 billion people. A world through which we might want to produce extra meals within the subsequent 30 years, then now we have within the final 10,000 years mixed whereas utilizing much less land, water, and different important inputs.
Dropping sight of this purpose may have disastrous penalties for the planet in addition to these on the underside rungs of the financial ladder.
With that in thoughts, we will ask ourselves, how are we going to sustainably present for this future?
Farmers and ranchers will do it the identical method they’ve for numerous generations. By way of science. By way of know-how. By way of innovation.
Folks have an unhealthy tendency to romanticize the previous. The assumption we did issues higher within the good-old-days is a typical false impression however not one utilized universally. Nobody pines for the day when surgeons operated with out anesthesia, however many imagine we must always farm like it’s the Forties.
Whereas we embrace science and know-how in each facet of our lives, there’s a rising pattern to withstand progress in our meals system. Actually, People benefit from the most secure, most inexpensive and plentiful meals provide in world historical past.
Science, know-how and agricultural innovators did that.
The options to sustainably proceed this success whereas exporting prosperity world wide shall be discovered sooner or later. Not the previous.
That’s what the Celebration of Fashionable Agriculture on the Nationwide Mall is all about. To cherish how far now we have come. To debate how we’re going to get the place we have to go. And, to teach policymakers and influencers that science and know-how in agriculture is an efficient factor. The atmosphere can not afford to have us flip our backs on information as we try to supply for a inhabitants of 9 billion that may combat to feed their kids a technique or one other.
The displays going down Monday, March 21 & Tuesday, March 22, 9 AM – 5 PM on the Nationwide Mall close to the Smithsonian Metro in Washington, DC will showcase the newest in:
- Gear know-how
- Bio-products
- In-field conservation practices
- Chemistry
- Plant genetics
- Information analytics
AEM and our companions invite you to discover how precision agriculture permits us to develop extra with much less. To see the superb shopper merchandise being created from vegetation. To learn the way biofuels are fueling cities. To style science. To learn the way American farmers and ranchers are standing on the shoulders of giants.
And, how the following technology will as effectively.
Exhibit Descriptions:
Gear on show:
- Challenge Xaver Planting Robotic
- Fendt Rogator 937H Sequence Self-Propelled Applicator
- Fendt 1162 Vario MT Sequence Observe Tractor
- Massey Ferguson 8S Sequence Tractor with Triple Mower Attachment
- Massey Ferguson 2860E Sequence Utility Tractor
- Hesston by Massey Ferguson WR Sequence Windrower with Mower Conditioner Head
- Find out about soil compaction, gas effectivity, precision spraying, and the way forward for autonomous planting.
- The exhibit will spotlight the way forward for mobility and the place tire know-how goes over the subsequent 10-20 years and the way tires contribute to sustainability.
Gear on show:
- AFS Join Magnum Tractor with Planter
- Find out about soil compaction and trendy planting.
Gear on show:
- Jaguar Forage Harvester
- Find out about trendy harvesting.
Gear on show:
- VMS milking robotic trailer
- Study concerning the automated milking course of and the way the information produced for elevated efficiencies results in stronger sustainability practices on in the present day’s dairy farms.
Gear on show:
- ProManure Lagoon Pump
- Find out about manure assortment, separation, and precision software.
Gear on show:
- X9 Mix with 50ft header
- 7R Tractor w/ Massive Sq. Baler
- Self-Propelled 120ft Growth Sprayer
- Find out about profitability and sustainability of farms, and the apply of much less intensive farming with precision know-how.
Gear on show:
- M7 Tractor
- Have fun Kubota’s 50th Anniversary and learn the way they’re powering the American dream whereas talking with members of the Farmers Veterans Coalition.
Gear on show:
- SLC126 Trailed Manure spreader
- Find out about in-field sensor information assortment and the utilization of knowledge to enhance sustainability.
Gear on show:
- Astronaut AS Robotic Milking System
- Find out about animal welfare and the environmental advantages of robotics.
Gear on show:
- Max Sequence Compact Tractor
- 5100 Sequence Compact Tractor
- 1600 Sequence Compact Tractor
- Mahindra NASCAR
- Study concerning the enhancements of engine emissions in agricultural tools.
Gear on show:
- T7 Heavy Responsibility Tractor with PLM Intelligence™
- Find out how farmers can use precision know-how with the tractor to advantageous tune inputs and handle implements and tools.
Digital Ag Pavilion:
Go to the Digital Ag Pavilion to discover the gathering and manipulation of sensible information to attenuate inputs whereas maximizing yields. Study concerning the newest in agriculture know-how from:
- Topcon – Software program and {hardware} options
- AgGateway – Information requirements
- Ag Trade Electronics Basis – Gear compatibility
- Arva Intelligence – Information analytics
- Microsoft – Rising Residence: Increasing Alternative in rural America
Agricultural Retailers Affiliation
- Study concerning the agronomy companies supplied to producers.
- Style modified meals truck providing samples of genetically modified fruit to debate the advantages, good style, and security of scientific improvements in meals.
American Farm Bureau Federation
- Find out about sustainability practices on the farm via interactive demonstrations, video games, and e-book readings.
American Seed Commerce Affiliation
- Study concerning the modifications in in the present day’s commodity crops which have taken over millennia.
American Soybean Affiliation/United Soybean Board
- Study extra about ASA/USB’s Sustainability of Soy report and its industrial makes use of.
- Find out how farms present cleaner, higher gas for America’s cities via an exhibit of DC Division of Public Works vehicles that run on low-carbon 100% biodiesel.
- Study concerning the Kernel of Innovation – a vast-array of merchandise made with corn akin to bioplastics, private care merchandise, and well being care merchandise.
- Find out about the advantages of pesticides and stewardship efforts advised via farmer representatives.
- Nelson County, Virginia FFA members focus on the analysis of grass-fed beef and learn how to talk with native farmers.
- Study concerning the energy of ethanol and the environmental advantages of biofuels by visiting a semi-truck that runs on 90% clear ethanol.
Nationwide Agricultural Aviation Affiliation
- Have fun the 100th anniversary of agricultural aviation historical past advised via museum panels. An OH-58 aerial software helicopter shall be on show with a liquid growth system and bucket used for firefighting.
Nationwide Corn Growers Affiliation
- Find out about U.S. corn farmers’ dedication to steady enchancment within the manufacturing of corn. Corn is a flexible crop offering plentiful, high-quality meals feed, renewable power, biobased merchandise, and ecosystem companies.
Nationwide Council of Farmer Cooperatives
- Find out about what co-ops do and their Sustainable Subject Information.
- Study concerning the superb issues hemp can do by visiting the Hemp Home on Wheels and a hemp automobile.
Nationwide Affiliation of Wheat Growers
- Play a trivia exercise and have interaction with interactive shows that inform the story of wheat manufacturing from area to flour to shopper.
Plant Based mostly Merchandise Council
- Crops make it potential. Find out about plant-based merchandise and their function within the round bioeconomy.
- Study concerning the provide chain story of fertilizer.
- Hear the findings from the U.S. Rice Trade Sustainability Report and study concerning the business’s 2030 sustainability targets. Study concerning the completely different home rice varieties and kinds via a hands-on grain show.
Tuesday, March 22 is Nationwide Ag Day.
For extra details about the Celebration of Fashionable Ag on the Nationwide Mall, contact AEM Senior Director of Regulatory Affairs Nick Tindall at ntindall@aem.org or 202-701-4287.
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