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Horizon Scans Yield Compelling Concepts for Rural Landscape Diversification

Horizon Scans Yield Compelling Concepts for Rural Landscape Diversification

by Communications Team | Jan 28, 2026 | Diverse Corn Belt Project

For Diverse Corn Belt participants and partners, the process of futuring has provided a fascinating and instructive picture of what’s possible in the rural landscape. Futuring aims to discover many possible outcomes for a particular business or market based on the...
Envisioning Rural Landscape Diversity with the Help of AI

Envisioning Rural Landscape Diversity with the Help of AI

by Communications Team | Nov 26, 2025 | Diverse Corn Belt Project

A picture can paint a thousand words. And in the emerging science of text-to-image generative artificial intelligence, the Diverse Corn Belt Project’s (DCB) Reimagining Agricultural Diversity (RAD) Teams are using this technology to turn rural landscape words and...
The Ethics of Diversification: Philosophy’s Role in DCB

The Ethics of Diversification: Philosophy’s Role in DCB

by Communications Team | Oct 28, 2025 | Diverse Corn Belt Project

If you ask 100 farmers why they raise corn and soybeans, you will receive 100 different answers. “There isn’t a single motivation that’s driving everybody,” DCB Team member Michael Tiboris says. “It’s really easy to look at the landscape, the homogeneity in the...
DCB Engages with Farmers through Farm Tours and Field Days

DCB Engages with Farmers through Farm Tours and Field Days

by Communications Team | Oct 16, 2025 | Diverse Corn Belt Project

Joe Mills discusses organic corn and soybean production with attendees of the first Indiana Diverse Farm Tour Aug. 12 in Montgomery and Fountain Counties. This summer, DCB Team members spoke at several field days, ranging from water quality, insect control, and weed...
Seeking Shelter Under the Foodshed

Seeking Shelter Under the Foodshed

by Communications Team | Oct 6, 2025 | Diverse Corn Belt Project

The notion of diversification is nothing new to farming, but taking the initial steps forward is both unfamiliar and risky. The Diverse Corn Belt Modeling Team is building a case for diversification by examining food production as it currently exists and what it could...

Recent Posts

  • Horizon Scans Yield Compelling Concepts for Rural Landscape Diversification
  • Envisioning Rural Landscape Diversity with the Help of AI
  • The Ethics of Diversification: Philosophy’s Role in DCB
  • DCB Engages with Farmers through Farm Tours and Field Days
  • Seeking Shelter Under the Foodshed

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This project is supported by Agriculture and Food Research Initiative Competitive Grant no. 2021-68012-35896 from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture.

Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this publication are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the view of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

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