Participants at this week’s UN Food Systems Summit are expected to see agriculture’s positive contributions to addressing climate change. South Dakota Farm Bureau President Scott VanderWal says for some time, farmers and ranchers with their production practices have had a positive impact on the environment.

He says Farm Bureau is part of a larger ag group that will be taking part in this week’s summit.

VanderWal says Farm Bureau and other ag groups have been putting forth their story of how farmers and ranchers do a good job with their environmental footprint and sharing that with the Biden administration which is focusing on those issues.

Part of the message being sent to UN Food System Summit attendees is that America’s farmers contribute just ten percent of overall greenhouse gas emissions, far less than many other countries.