The AIM Initiative
@AIMillinoisorg
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Join us in our mission to celebrate agricultural conservation, soil health, and water quality across Illinois. Together, we'll showcase how conservation counts!
Springfield, IL, USA
Joined August 2023
Are you ready to take advantage of the Sustainable Aviation Fuel tax credit? Fields will have to use no-till/strip-till, cover crops, and other conservation practices to reduce emitting carbon from your equipment and to boost carbon sequestration into your soil. cc: @GrowthEnergy
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Conservation Planner Leticia Taliafero spied a praying mantis at the Natural Resources Conservation Service Milan Field Office. @USDA_NRCS @ILAgriculture
#AIMillinois #conservation #agriculture #farmer #illinois #sustainability #covercrops #soilhealth #farming #prayingmantis
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John McNally (@twoleggedzoo), a conservation planner with Vermillion County SWCD, says to watch out for #wildparsnip. If the stem is broken and the sap gets on your skin, it’ll react to sunlight to burn and blister your skin. @ILextension @USDA_NRCS
https://t.co/PZCv9k8eGI
extension.illinois.edu
URBANA, Ill. — Often parsnips, large white carrot-like root vegetables, are substituted for celery in soups and stews. The cultivated parsnip that we eat heralds
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Dale Shumaker, chairman of the Pulaski-Alexander Soil and Water Conservation District and chair of the @AISWCD Forestry Committee, talks about an initiative to plant oak savannas statewide. #AIMillinois #conservation #agriculture #illinois #soilhealth
https://t.co/hxuxjffH24
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The @MortonArboretum’s Chicago Region Trees Initiative is accepting applications now through early 2024 for competitive sub-grants totaling $6.86 million for government entities in disadvantaged Illinois communities to improve their urban tree canopy. https://t.co/9TvuVj8Tye
mortonarb.org
To plant and protect trees for a greener, healthier, and more beautiful world
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Conservation Planner Leticia Taliafero passes on some images from Conservation Reserve Program lands she toured as part of her work with the Rock Island County SWCD. “It’s one of the most beautiful CRPs I have seen,” she said. #AIMillinois #conservation #agriculture #farmer
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Northwest Ohio no-tiller Les Seiler found a way to improve water quality and reduce erosion by constructing a two-stage ditch on one of his farms in 2014. The ditch also doubles as a pollinator habitat. @NoTillFarmr #AIMillinois #conservation #notill
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Region 1 Planning Council has received Section 319 Grant funding from the @ILEPA to conduct outreach and activities to educate and encourage local watershed stakeholders to adopt nonpoint source pollution control best management practices. #AIMillinois
https://t.co/ru24ZyiPdd
engager1.mysocialpinpoint.com
Best management practices for water quality improvement
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The @FarmFoundation reported the results of a study suggesting that “conservation” and “sustainable” were the most successful framings for speaking to consumers and producers alike when talking about conservation agriculture practices. #AIMillinois 🔗 https://t.co/8ZlQMnYz89
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On this #SocialMediaDay, we celebrate Kenny @akeba090 – our fearless social media guru. Kenny came to Agroecology + Innovation Matters as an Illini Science Policy Scholar through the @ILextension. Kenny was always positive and took our social media presence to new heights.
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. @farmdaily's Prairie Farmer talked to @PurdueInsects' integrated pest management specialist, John Obermeyer, about how sparing insects from spraying can save beneficial bugs that boost soil health, target insects that damage crops, and other benefits. https://t.co/KZO7ZbsSbk
farmprogress.com
Slideshow: Beneficial insects perform important tasks in the environment, including helping to control crop pests.
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The passage of SB1701 enabled the creation of the Conservation Capacity Building Initiative, funded via the @USDA_NRCS and the @ILAgriculture. The 40 conservation planners work out of NRCS/SWCD offices, assisting farmers around the state. #SB1701 @Farmland
farmland.org
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An oldie but a goodie - The Dust Bowl documentary by Ken Burns - chronicling the worst man-made ecological disaster in American history. Please share the positive impacts of conservation agriculture. #AIMillinois #conservation #DustBowlPBS #soilhealth
https://t.co/orlyq5QHow
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A bit of challenging news from this @IowaStateU Center for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD) study indicating cover crop acreage growth stagnated in Iowa, Indiana, and Illinois. Please be sure to talk to your neighbors about your successes. #farm
https://t.co/5UpCPNCtO7
agpolicyreview.card.iastate.edu
County-level data from the 2022, 2017, and 2012 US Census of Agriculture shows patterns of adoption and disadoption of cover crops and no-till in Illinois, Indiana, and Iowa, which jointly accounted...
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Good job on the sign, Virginia No-Till Alliance. “Growing food for my underground livestock” is a fun way to promote soil health and no-till/strip-till practices. #AIMillinois #conservation #agriculture #illinois #sustainability #covercrops #soilhealth #farm #notill #striptill
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New @IRSnews guidance on the Sustainable Aviation Fuel tax credit calls for the use of no-till and cover crops. By adopting conservation practices now, you can be sure your corn and soybeans will be the right input for ethanol producers. @FarmersAdviser
https://t.co/2H7IzULbMa
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It’s a 3-5-year investment to see the results of conservation practices in the field and in the ledger book. ADM Farmer Services’s Re:generations program funding helps fill the gap. @farmdaily @ADMFarmServices
#AIMillinois #conservation #agriculture #farm
https://t.co/mkXaOC96XB
farmprogress.com
ADM’s ‘re:generations’ program bridges the gap of implementation and results in regenerative ag.
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News on the invasive species front - @UMNews researchers have determined that most buckthorn seedlings emerge in the first two years, changing the timeline needed for intensive treatment to try to stop the invasive tree. #AIMillinois #TakeAIM #conservation
https://t.co/CX5yDkS72z
twin-cities.umn.edu
According to new research from the University of Minnesota, buckthorn managers have long overestimated the plant, and in doing so, have given the invasive tree a significant advantage in spreading...
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Jaime Davidson, a conservation planner with Iroquois County SWCD, sends a note from one of her Conservation Reserve Program status review checks to watch out for hemlock. Hemlock is an acute toxin if ingested and will cause contact dermatitis. #AIMillinois #hemlock #hemlocktree
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