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The Earth is sending signals. Farmers and ranchers are among the first to receive them.

World Environment Day, observed every June 5, is a global call to action on climate change — and for the agricultural community, that call hits close to home. Drought cycles are getting harder. Wildfire seasons are growing longer. Rain comes less predictably and often all at once. Producers don't need a report to tell them the climate is changing. They feel it every season.

The good news is that the land itself holds part of the answer. Rebuilding soil health, improving water infiltration and holding capacity, increasing plant diversity and keeping living roots in the ground creates land that is more resilient — land that can absorb the shocks of an increasingly unpredictable climate and keep producing.

Noble's 3M research project, our working ranches and the education programs we deliver to producers across the country are all built around that goal.

The land is already telling us what it needs. Noble is committed to helping producers listen.

Learn more about Noble's approach: https://www.noble.org/regenerative-agriculture/

Noble Research Institute is headed to Madill, Oklahoma, this week for the Oklahoma Pecan Growers Association's Annual Convention and Trade Show, June 4-6, and we're proud to be a sponsor of this year's event.

If you're attending, stop by and see us at booth No. 7 at the trade show. We'd love to connect and talk orchard management, soil health research and what Noble's pecan team has been working on.

On Saturday, June 6, Noble senior regenerative ranching advisor Charles Rohla will present "Ecosystem Processes in Orchards and Root Causes of Problems" during the Field Day at Hauani Creek Pecan Company. The Field Day program begins at 8 a.m. If you're already registered, it's a session worth putting on your schedule.

We'll see you in Madill!

Food plots are usually built around a season.

But wildlife doesn't live that way.

“They have to live on the landscape 365 days a year,” as Will Moseley puts it. That means food alone is not enough—water, cover and how those pieces are arranged across the land all matter just as much.

It also changes how you look at a pasture. Instead of managing for what you don't want, the focus shifts to what you do want to see more of. That often means more diversity, such as grasses, forbs and even some woody plants, working together to support both wildlife and livestock.

It's not about setting aside a food plot. It's about how the whole ranch is managed.

Follow the link for the full article https://www.noble.org/regenerative-agriculture/how-to-turn-your-whole-ranch-into-a-wildlife-food-plot/.