Figuring out how to feed the world, while keeping nature intact, is one of the greatest challenges of our times. Time to protect, restore, manage and fund nature. links.nature.org/bkcaa #WorldFoodDay 🌽🍎🥕

Happy #WorldSoilDay! Today we are celebrating this wondrous mixture of air, water, minerals, gases and organic matter that makes life possible. Check out this short video to find out why #soilhealth matters.

Some online fun: we ran OpTIS data on conservation practices through the DeNitrification-Decomposition (DNDC) model, then put our data visualization tool online. Take it for a test drive at bit.ly/38PpZla and tell us what you think of the tool at bit.ly/3aYRVo7

Restoring & protecting the world's #soils could absorb more than five billion tonnes of CO2 each year -- roughly what the US emits annually, according to a new study lead by The Nature Conservancy's Deborah Bossio. Read more: nature.ly/2U29JZM #carbonsink #sequester

Learn how #OpTISdata—which is free & accessible online—can inform the work of farm advisors, policy makers & many others as they help farmers adopt #soilhealth practices. Watch the video: nature.ly/34NZqwu CTIC

What could you do with a free database tracking conservation tillage and cover crop adoption on a HUC-8 scale? How about a powerful visualization tool? Explore anytime at ctic.org/OpTIS., and learn more in our May 29 webinar. Register now: bit.ly/OpTISwebinar

Interested in #AgData? Join us, along with CTIC, for a Zoom webinar on May 29 to learn how you can use #OpTISdata to understand trends in #soilhealth practices. Register at bit.ly/OpTISwebinar. Space is limited.

Join speakers from General Mills AAFC Canada Ecosystem Services Market Consortium for an Oct. 16 webinar on how they’re using #DNDCmodeling of OpTIS #AgData to estimate the impact of conservation ag practices on environmental outcomes. Webinar registration: bit.ly/OpTIS-DNDC.

Over 16,000 data points from nearly 300 peer-reviewed papers makeup #AgEvidence, a new visualization dashboard focusing on the environmental impacts of conservation ag practices in the Midwest. Check it out: agevidence.org

Join The Nature Conservancy‘s Steve Wood @wooddecomp & Lesley Atwood Lesley Atwood, PhD for a 1-hour webinar about #AgEvidence on Oct 9. Register at nature.ly/AgEvidence. #AgData

WEBINAR, Oct 16: Explore the possibilities of using DNDC to mine #OpTISdata for insights into changes in soil carbon, nitrous oxide emissions & nitrate leaching. Register: bit.ly/OpTIS-DNDC.

This Friday, learn how #DNDCmodeling—using remote-sensing data from OpTIS—analyzes Corn Belt ag management practices & estimates environmental outcomes for soil organic carbon, GHG emissions and more. Register: bit.ly/OpTIS-DNDC.

WEBINAR TOMORROW! Learn how a variety of users are employing #DNDCmodeling with newly available #OpTISdata to measure the environmental impacts of #soilhealth practices. Register for the 1-hr webinar, Friday, 11 am ET: bit.ly/OpTIS-DNDC

If we truly want a green recovery, it’s time for a new food economy. It’s time to go beyond sustainable. It’s time to #GrowPositive. nature.org/en-us/what-we-…

Mapping #Conservation Management Practices and Outcomes in the #Corn Belt Using the Operational Tillage Information System (OpTIS) and the Denitrification–Decomposition (DNDC) Model by Stephen C. Hagen, Grace Delgado, Peter Ingraham, Ian Cooke, Richard Emery et al.

Roadless areas in the Tongass National Forest protect healthy salmon runs, maintain wild scenery, keep intact globally unique old-growth forests and provide habitat for healthy populations of wildlife. All of it is at risk with today’s announcement. nature.org/en-us/newsroom…

Adopting edge of field practices on farmland provides an array of benefits to farmers, communities and nature. Learn more: nature.ly/2KbxYT6