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Almonds are Under Threat. The Key to Saving Them Could Be in the Soil

Modern Farmer

As Brian Paddock walks through his 12-and-a-half acres of almond trees, he’s taking in everything. He’s tinkered with different irrigation systems, moving from a sub-surface drip setup to his current above-ground micro-sprayer, which he says has the best distribution of water with the least waste. And guess what it replaces?

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Climate savior or ‘Monsanto of the sea’?

Food Environment and Reporting Network

In recent years, seaweed has been put forth as what one writer called a Swiss Army knife solution to climate change: able to absorb atmospheric carbon, reduce cattle’s methane emissions, provide feedstock for biofuels, and feed the world — no fertilizers, fresh water, or even land required. These concerns aren’t hypothetical. he asked. “Is

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Food as Filler OR Food as Medicine?

UnderstandingAg

farm production more than doubled, and farm size increased from an average of 215 acres in 1950 to 464 acres in 2023. is losing an average of two tons of topsoil per acre annually. Irrigated acres have more than doubled since 1960. It is a food distribution and equity problem. From 1950 to 2000, U.S. 50% of U.S.

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Can Biden’s climate-smart agriculture program live up to the hype?

Food Environment and Reporting Network

These entities will pass most of the money on to tens of thousands of farmers, ranchers, and forest owners, including growers who manage thousands of acres and underserved and disadvantaged farmers who often have much smaller operations. This spring, the Biden administration began allocating $3.1 But it should be.

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How mushrooms can prevent megafires

Food Environment and Reporting Network

In response, the federal government has committed nearly $5 billion in the Inflation Reduction Act and Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to thinning forests on about 50 million Western acres over the next 10 years. We do hundreds to thousands of acres of fire mitigation a year,” Ravage said. He hopes to show that fungi can do it better.

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The whole dam truth

Food Environment and Reporting Network

million acres of the Central Valley. million acres of almond trees bearing nuts and another 300,000 acres of trees still too young to need pollination. Each acre of mature trees is supposed to be pollinated by two honeybee colonies. California’s almond industry spreads over 1.4 In 2018, California had 1.1 has averaged 2.67

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A remote Alaska village depended on the snow crab harvest for survival. Then billions of crabs died.

Food Environment and Reporting Network

million acres of the Central Valley. million acres of almond trees bearing nuts and another 300,000 acres of trees still too young to need pollination. Each acre of mature trees is supposed to be pollinated by two honeybee colonies. California’s almond industry spreads over 1.4 In 2018, California had 1.1 has averaged 2.67