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The Food-Finance Nexus: A Recipe for Climate Success

Submitted by Amy Senter, Director of World Business Council for Sustainable Development, as a Letter to the Editor in Progressive Farmer magazine on 2/1/2022


Mike Shuter, a third-generation family farmer in Frankton, Indiana, has been practicing "no-till" farming for 38 years and planting cover crops for a dozen years with the goal of enhancing the health of his farm's soil to reduce the amount of fertilizer he'd need to apply and optimize yields.


But he soon learned the practice also helped with water filtration in the fields after heavy spring rains, slashed the amount of fertilizer and pesticides needed to optimize yields, reduced soil erosion, and it better protects the area's water resources.


Shuter Sunset Farms, located about 50 miles northeast of Indianapolis, covers 3,000 acres, and specializes in corn, soybeans, winter wheat, cattle, and pork production.


Shuter, and his partners, sons Brian and Patrick, have long been independent advocates of no-till and cover crops. Sustainable practices like these can improve farm resilience, enhance biodiversity, and reduce farming's environmental impact on climate change. And the practice is starting to spread.


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