Farmer Roundtable Highlights Urgent Need to Bolster IRA Funding for Sustainable Farming

The farmers settled into their chairs at the Congressional briefing room. With the urgency climate change demands, they came from a diverse array of states with an important and powerful message to share: keep IRA funding for conservation programs in agriculture. The group gathered on January 11 on Capitol Hill to share their stories with members of Congress in a briefing hosted by the House Sustainable Energy and Environment Coalition (SEEC) and organized with the support of the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC) and its members. Representing the states of Arkansas, Indiana, New York, and Oregon, the group spoke before members of the Coalition and Congressional staffers about the ways that they are using programs such as the Environmental Quality Incentive Program (EQIP) and the Conservation Stewardship Program (CSP). 

Both EQIP and CSP are conservation…