TY - JOUR T1 - Understanding opportunities and increasing implementation of climate friendly conservation JF - Journal of Soil and Water Conservation SP - 67A LP - 69A DO - 10.2489/jswc.67.3.67A VL - 67 IS - 3 AU - Ryan Stockwell AU - Eliav Bitan Y1 - 2012/05/01 UR - http://www.jswconline.org/content/67/3/67A.abstract N2 - At the 2011 Annual Meeting of the Soil and Water Conservation Society, the Executive Director Jim Gulliford announced a new Position Statement on Climate Change and Soil and Water Conservation: “The Soil and Water Conservation Society finds that soil and water conservation practices can play a major role in the mitigation of agriculture's contribution to greenhouse gas emissions and adaptation to changes in seasonal precipitation and temperature patterns” (SWCS 2011). The National Wildlife Federation agreed with this position in the recent publication, Future Friendly Farming: Seven Agricultural Practices to Sustain People and the Environment (Stockwell and Bitan 2011). We found that the seven practices discussed in this publication also improve farmer profitability thanks to modern tools and knowledge (Stockwell and Bitan 2011). Adoption of these and other soil and water conservation practices is in relatively early phases. Early innovators have begun incorporating these practices, but going from minimal adoption rates to broad or diffuse implementation will require additional information to not only answer farmers' questions, but to give them the information and encouragement to implement these practices. This article shares the experience of four early adopters of innovative practices. We hope these stories will help answer every farmer's first question… ER -