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@PipaElias from @NatureAg talks about practices for better soil health, including cover crops, crop rotation, reduced tillage, and nutrient management. All of these can help to make farms more efficient, saving costs and reducing emissions.

A number of options for natural climate solutions in agriculture can be cost-efficient and prevent emissions, says @PipaElias from @NatureAg. The best environmental option is reduced grassland conversion, which is a central goal of @nature_org.

Healthy soils can help farmers be part of the #ClimateChange solution by storing more carbon (increasing fertility), absorbing water to make the land more resilient, and improving water quality by reducing runoff, says @PipaElias from @NatureAg.

"Adopting soil health practices on all U.S. corn, soy, and wheat croplands could deliver nearly $50 billion in social and environmental impacts," says @PipaElias from @NatureAg.

Soil health can help drive corporate climate goals, such as how @GeneralMills pledged to engage in regenerative agriculture on 1 million acres of farmland by 2030, says @PipaElias from @NatureAg.

If a market paid $10 per ton of carbon, that's $160 million back in farmers' pockets each year across 122 million acres of croplands in the Midwest, says @PipaElias from @NatureAg. "To farmers, profiting from emissions reduction should be as easy as selling their grain."

"The #agriculture supply chain is incredibly complex, and even large corporations don't know where their products are coming from. But we believe that the benefits should go primarily to the growers," says @PipaElias from @NatureAg.