Climate Change, Agriculture and Resilience is a five-part video series that look at individual farmers and how sustainable practices on the farm help them stay resilient to a changing climate and increasingly common hurdles like the 2012 drought. These videos dig into things like crop insurance, the Farm Bill, extreme weather and agricultural diversity all through the lens of individual producers that have found their own approach to dealing with the risks farmers face each season.
Organic Dairy | Threlkeld Farm
In part one of IATP's "Climate change, agriculture and resilience" series, we look at how farmer Terry Ingram's grass-fed dairy farm relies on the sun instead of fossil fuel-based inputs to remain financially stable as climate change makes farming an increasingly risky business.
Ecological Farming | Jaus Farm
Part two of our "Climate change, agriculture and resilience" series features the Minnesota organic dairy farm of Martin and Loretta Jaus who farm the same 410 acres that Martin's great grandfather homesteaded in 1877. In order to combat the eroding soil, and remain more resilient in the increasing incidences of drought and flood, Martin and Loretta have worked to increase their farm's biodiversity.
Future Farming | Lazy R Ranch
Maurice and Beth Robinette of Lazy R Ranch talk about their approach to farming grass-fed beef and why carbon sequestration and protecting their ecosystem is so important.
Risk | Brownfield Orchards
The fourth in IATP's "Climate, agriculture and resilience" video series focuses on the risk involved for farmers who grow our food, how they deal with it, and how that risk is increasing as weather extremes due to climate change shake our system's very foundations. Without conventional crop insurance to protect his orchard, Mike Brownfield has instituted other methods of risk-management.
Diversity | Nuessmeier Farm
Even as markets and farm policy encourage monocropping for maximum profit, farmer Tom Nuessmeier, from La Sueur, Minnesota, is taking the long view on climate change. His 200-acre organic farm—producing farrow-to-finish hogs, corn, soy, oats, winter grains and alfalfa—is a rarity in its diversity and size, especially today.