The latter includes
good agricultural practices such as soil erosion prevention, minimizing water use and pollution, responsible use of chemicals, and habitat protection.
Global efforts to address climate change can be supported through the uptake of
best agricultural practices such as conservation tillage, and increases in productivity that protect carbon sinks from encroachment.
Not exact matches
Government has often played a role in promoting performance - enhancing work
practices to enhance overall economy - wide outcomes from higher productivity and innovation,
such as the long history of
agricultural extension services (since 1887) to spread information on
best practices in farming, and employer education on safety
practices conducted by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
Where laws and / or regulations do not exist or are in conflict with generally accepted
best practice, suppliers should adopt the highest standard applicable to their situation by reference to leading safety standards
such as the Global Food Safety Initiative and Global G.A.P. McCormick expects that all
agricultural suppliers will take steps to ensure that
agricultural products can be traced back to their source of origin regardless of whether or not this is legally required.
Farmers, as
well as those employed, retained or otherwise authorized to act on behalf of farmers, may lawfully engage in
agricultural practices within Erie county at all
such times and all
such locations as are reasonably necessary to conduct the business of agriculture.
Farmers are seeing the same trend in voluntary FDA and Agriculture Department standards called «
good agricultural practices,» which include several common - sense measures
such as hand - washing but can dock farms points if they sit within 2 miles of livestock.
There's also the not insignificant challenge of implementing
such solutions globally — otherwise known as the problem of scale — as
well as overcoming the reasons of engaging in traditional
practices,
such as burning the residue in
agricultural fields to increase fertility, in the first place.
For its part, Agriculture hopes to be able to determine what the overriding impacts and concerns might be for a given multistate region as
well as offer advice on farming
practices that might curtail
agricultural contributions to greenhouse gas emissions (via
such processes as fertilizer production and use, plowing
practices, and rice paddy methane release).
Other techniques,
such as planting cover crops and no - till soil management, can further increase CO2 uptake and reduce energy use.25, 26 Use of
agricultural best management
practices can also improve water quality by reducing the loss of sediments and nutrients from farm fields.