The Iowa Soybean Association held their annual meeting last week, and farmer delegates largely reaffirmed existing policy while tweaking language pertaining to cover crops, pollinator habitat and taxation. Delegates called upon the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resources and Conservation Service to establish and enforce a seed inspection and certification policy to ensure that seed used for cost-share habitat and cover crop programs is free from noxious weeds. They also voiced support for the current federal policy allowing haying and grazing of Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) ground in exchange for reduced rental payments.
