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NASDA CEO TED MCKINNEY SAYS AG GROUPS, NOT ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIVISTS, SHOULD DRIVE CLIMATE SMART PRACTICES
Sep. 28, 2022
By C.J. Miller, Hoosier Ag Today radio network
The term "Climate-Smart Agriculture" has received a lot of news coverage recently, and those are the latest buzz words in the farm industry. That's why Ted McKinney, former Director of the Indiana State Department of Agriculture, is now working in Washington D.C. to make sure the ag community is leading the direction on climate-related policies.
"You can walk and chew gum at the same time, and I think that's probably a good analogy on what we have to do," said McKinney, who is now CEO of the National Association of the State Departments of Agriculture (NASDA) after also having served as Under Secretary of Agriculture for Trade and Foreign Agricultural Affairs for President Trump.
He says NASDA and other ag organizations are working to control the narrative on "climate-smart agriculture."
"A lot of that is what farmers are already doing: no till or minimum till farming, planting cover crops, using judicial amounts of pesticides and fertilizer - all the things that a lot of farmers are already doing is climate smart ag," according to McKinney.
However, he says he is concerned that environmental groups are the ones trying to beat the ag industry to the punch in setting up standards and certifications for crops and livestock.
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