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USFRA’s new film highlights agriculture’s role in addressing climate change

The U.S. Farmers and Ranchers Alliance (USFRA) has released a short film highlighting agriculture’s role in combatting climate change over the next 30 years.

Erin Fitzgerald, CEO of the alliance, says “30 Harvests” quantifies the crop cycles left before 2050, when the global population is expected to reach 9 billion people.

“By the year 2050 we have to feed 70% more people or as much food as we’ve produced in all of mankind up to this point,” she says.  

The short film follows Texas farmer Jay Hill and Missouri farmer and soil scientist Meagan Kaiser. They discuss the challenges farmers face to meet increasing demands for food and to ultimately help address climate change.

She tells Brownfield farmers are part of the solution as they produce more food on less land.

We know that our farmers are doing amazing things and we have the opportunity to actually be carbon positive in the future or draw down carbon through our soils,” she says. “In other words, there’s nobody else other than the agriculture sector who can be the solution.”   

Fitzgerald says USFRA released the film to show that agriculture is not the problem and farmers are working daily to improve soils and water quality.

USFRA is also working with ag leaders to create a strategic roadmap to help address these challenges. Click here to watch the video or visit usfarmersandranchers.org for more information.

Audio: Erin Fitzgerald, U.S. Farmers and Ranchers Alliance