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The Best of Both Worlds: Hybrid Farms are Bridging Agriculture Systems

Agritecture Blog

Written by: Dorothy Braun May 23, 2022 Hybrid farms offer a sustainable and innovative approach to agriculture that can help meet the growing demand for food while reducing the environmental impact of farming. This scalable system intensifies land use and can yield at least 10 times the amount per unit land area compared to monolayer farms.

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Food Systems 101: How Community Colleges Are Helping Students Connect Farm to Fork

Modern Farmer

On the back 16 acres of Walla Walla Community College, 30 Red Angus cows stand munching on hairy vetch, ryegrass and other cover crops that were planted to help restore the soil. Walla Walla Community College’s program may be one of the most extensive culinary-agriculture curriculums, but there are others.

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Can a Farm Generate Solar Power and Blueberries at Once?

Daily Yonder

The hard hat is a minor inconvenience for Sweetland, but is emblematic of a broader question that researchers have been studying on this farm: How can agricultural lands support both crops and solar panels without hurting the other’s bottom line? Shade from the solar panels is significantly reducing blueberry yield.

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Walmart’s ‘Regenerative Foodscape’

Civil Eats

After years of philanthropic support for fisheries, water, and education, members of his generation (along with some of their elders) are not only accelerating that environmental focus, they’re applying it to food and agriculture in new ways. He also passed on a significant stake in Walmart, the world’s largest retailer, with $611.3

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BIFS Field Day: Cover Cropping and Livestock Grazing for Regenerative Viticulture

Caff

That’s part of what Project Terra is about; it’s highlighting all of these ideas and initiatives that are going to take us further on that sustainability spectrum. ” -Kendra Altnow Project Terra is their collection of initiatives that demonstrate and communicate the positive impact of regenerative agriculture using systems approach principles.

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Managing Dairy Slurry to Maximize Nutrient Capture

UnderstandingAg

Some farms have limited acres to apply manure and feel forced to apply at maximum regulatory rates to get the pits emptied. Practices we have seen work well include: Keeping slurry application rates to 3000-4000 gal/acre/application. Positive impacts can be made with just one or two adaptive grazing events per year on a given acre.

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As Saltwater Encroaches on Farms, Solutions Emerge from the Marshes

Civil Eats

According to the researchers, between 2011 and 2017 the number of visible salt patches almost doubled and about 20,000 acres of farmland turned into marsh. But instead of trying to keep the water at bay, Zander’s opted to look to the region’s agricultural past for inspiration, to an approach that works with the tidal landscape.

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