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Mission
GOAL: To implement an adaptive management
system framework for production agriculture assisting farmers with
documenting and demonstrating measurable environmental quality
improvements.
CEMSA is designed to help farmers
incorporate an Environmental Management System (EMS) within their
farming operation. CEMSA was developed on a planning framework
that uses the NRCS's nine-step planning process and iso 14001.
The key to CEMSA is measuring, monitoring, and validating processes
to capture feedback on the performance of specific practices. It
applies a management system framework to farming that can be evaluated
and adjusted based upon real performance. The process is called
applied evaluation, and it's a process that is working on hundreds
of Iowa farms today.
Through CEMSA, the Iowa Soybean Association assists farmers by helping
them create an EMS (Environmental Management System) that: |
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• increases
environmental awareness and awareness of conservation issues
• provides on-farm assessments that prioritize issues
specific to the farm
• determined baseline data for those issues and
implements evaluation activities
• prevents pollution
• assists with government conservation programs
• is always focused on the bottom line |
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