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8c63 (June 14, 2022) 8c63 — 8c63 Natural Farming Analysis Basis (OFRF) 8c63 Analysis & Schooling Program Supervisor 8c63 8c63 Thelma Vélez 8c63 , PhD, will testify earlier 8c63 than the complete Home Agriculture 8c63 Committee listening to on “ 8c63 The Function of Local weather 8c63 Analysis in Supporting Agricultural Resiliency 8c63 .” Vélez was invited to 8c63 share her experience and might 8c63 be summarizing analysis findings that 8c63 exhibit the potential for natural 8c63 techniques to mitigate local weather 8c63 change and construct resilience. 8c63 8c63 She 8c63 8c63 will even suggest extra funding 8c63 in natural analysis, schooling, and 8c63 extension to assist American farmers 8c63 and ranchers in implementing the 8c63 perfect practices for local weather 8c63 mitigation and adaptation. The listening 8c63 to is scheduled for Wednesday, 8c63 June 15, 2022 at 10:00 8c63 AM ET, and might be 8c63 stay streamed on the 8c63 Home Ag Democrats YouTube channel 8c63 .
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8c63 Vélez has over 15 years 8c63 of interdisciplinary agriculture and meals 8c63 techniques analysis expertise. She’s going 8c63 to communicate on behalf of 8c63 Natural Farming Analysis Basis, a 8c63 nationwide nonprofit that works intently 8c63 with researchers, natural farmers, and 8c63 coverage makers throughout the U.S. 8c63 to know the challenges farmers 8c63 face, and to supply the 8c63 analysis and schooling instruments wanted 8c63 to assist them thrive.
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8c63 OFRF lately printed its 8c63 2022 Nationwide Natural Analysis Agenda 8c63 (NORA) 8c63 , a 230-page report compiling 8c63 survey outcomes and listening session 8c63 information from over 1,000 licensed 8c63 natural producers. Over half of 8c63 those farmers had been involved 8c63 with adapting to local weather 8c63 change and practically 90% of 8c63 NORA individuals carried out regenerative 8c63 soil well being administration resembling 8c63 cowl cropping, a climate-friendly follow.
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8c63 “Lower than 1% of the 8c63 USDA’s annual analysis price range 8c63 is spent on natural manufacturing 8c63 matters, which isn’t aligned with 8c63 the natural sector’s regularly rising 8c63 market share of 6%,” says 8c63 Vélez. “Whereas the natural methodology has 8c63 been proven to have nice 8c63 potential to contribute to each 8c63 local weather mitigation and local 8c63 weather resilience, rather more action-oriented 8c63 analysis is required to make 8c63 widespread adoption attainable.”
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8c63 Natural Farming Analysis Basis
8c63 The Natural Farming Analysis Basis 8c63 (OFRF) is a non-profit basis 8c63 that works to foster the 8c63 development and widespread adoption of 8c63 natural farming techniques. OFRF cultivates 8c63 natural analysis, schooling, and federal 8c63 insurance policies that carry extra 8c63 farmers and acreage into natural 8c63 manufacturing. Challenge outcomes are shared 8c63 freely at ofrf.org. OFRF additionally 8c63 supplies free entry to all 8c63 of its academic supplies and 8c63 assets.
8c63 http://ofrf.org
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8c63 Media Contact
8c63 Caroline Baptist, OFRF Communications Supervisor, 8c63 caroline@ofrf.org
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