The Midwest Row Crop Collaborative (MRCC) proposed a high-impact program this month for USDA’s Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities—a public funding opportunity aimed at developing a market for commodities produced using practices that reduce greenhouse gas emissions and sequester carbon. The Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities is a novel…
If 2020 was marked by its disruption for the food and agricultural system and our wider society, how might we characterize this past year? Given a little distance from 2021 and—with the help of a review of Midwest Row Crop Collaborative’s accomplishments—I remain struck by the momentum MRCC has built…
Across the flat plains and rolling hills of Eastern Nebraska, Midwest Row Crop Collaborative (MRCC) member companies, farmer support organizations, and growers are seeding new ways to scale regenerative agriculture. We know healthy soils that protect water quality and address climate change are necessary to support farm families now and into the future. At the same time, farmers face…
HSBC Bank USA, N.A., (HSBC) and the Midwest Row Crop Collaborative (MRCC) announced that HSBC has made a $1.6 million grant to MRCC to accelerate conservation and the adoption of regenerative practices such as cover crops, nutrient management, reduced tillage, and prairie strips on large-scale farms in MRCC’s collaborative projects.
Behind the Midwest Row Crop Collaborative is a seasoned group of leaders whose contributions range from guiding MRCC’s strategy to more granular work in developing collaborative projects to advance sustainable and regenerative agriculture. While the members approach MRCC’s work from varied perspectives within the value chain, in coming together they…
The Midwest represents a globally unique resource and economically vital area of agricultural production. The region faces mounting environmental and economic challenges from climate change and other pressures on the landscape. From rising temperatures to wetter springs like the floods of 2019 to extreme weather events like the derecho earlier…