Societies urge USDA to embrace diversity and develop products that increase resilience and sustainability

USDA requested input on the Agriculture Innovation Agenda, its vision for the future of agriculture that includes increasing agriculture’s productivity while decreasing its environmental footprint. ASA, CSSA, and SSSA, as a part of an intersociety Task Force, responded that the Agriculture Innovation Agenda goals first depend on keeping Americans farming. The comments recommended that USDA should embrace agriculture education, diversity and inclusion, economic policies that help farmers be flexible, and products that increase resilience and sustainability, like sensor systems and breeding toolkits.

Read the full comments here.