National Association of Conservation Districts Monitoring Carbon Farming and Inclusion Issues

The last time, I brought you a report from the National Association of conservation districts, it was on their farm bill priorities today NACD. Secretary-Treasurer, Mark masters talks about another important issue to the organization and that is carbon farming.

“We're not directly involved with any one particular, you know, carbon market entity or whatever. But I'll say it's something that we're actively keeping an eye on, you know, a lot of our members and member districts around the United States are as well. We see that as an emerging opportunity, you know, that may assist us in implementing more conservation, which is which is certainly part of our mission. So while we're not directly involved, we see it as a significant opportunity that we should definitely pay attention to.”

Diversity, equity, and inclusion is another important initiative for NACD.

“Trying to make sure those historically underserved producers, you know, have access to the conservation and practices and not just you know, through our partners at USDA and our all of our various states, but also within our organization, right to make sure that we have representation and active participation from those groups and our local districts and our leadership.”

Masters points out that NACD represents over 3000 conservation districts around the United States. And the organization's main goal, he says is to tell the story of conservation.