Sustainable Food Trust

JANUARY 31, 2024

He went on to talk about the studies being done on greenhouse gases in relation to sheep farming and the potential for wool to be a carbon sink, with around 40% of a sheep’s fleece consisting of carbon. John’s father had bought their tenanted farm in the 1980s from the proceeds of selling all his cattle.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

His mom, Christy Walton—widow to Sam’s son John—has a net worth of about $11 billion, which she has used to fund restaurants, large ocean aquaculture projects, and a 40,000-acre ranch that offers a “regenerative experience” to tourists and has acted as a site for research on land and livestock management. It won’t be easy.

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Agwired

OCTOBER 17, 2024

The resulting corn, soy, sugar beats and wheat supply insetting markets where corporate entities aim to reduce their greenhouse gas footprint. A project let by TH Cattle Company is quantifying the soil and biomass impacts of climate-smart ranching practices and rewarding livestock producers through premiums for added-value beef.

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Civil Eats

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Jordan Macknick from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory—which conducts agrivoltaics research in California—includes solar combined with specialty and commodity crops, solar with livestock, solar with land providing pollinator habitat or ecosystem services, and solar-integrated greenhouses in the list of approaches. In November, U.C.

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Farming Farming Technology Acre 134

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Not only does his cattle system capture carbon, but he also improves water infiltration and water holding capacity in his soils. While farmers like Fischer are avid proponents of the need to address greenhouse gas emissions, others may be less certain about that need. Further, they have added nearly five acres of prairie strips.

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The Lunatic Farmer

JANUARY 18, 2024

will have fallen by 50 percent and the cattle farming industry will be all but bankrupt. cattle industry will be effectively bankrupt. Environmental benefits will be profound with net greenhouse gas emissions from the sector falling by 45 percent by 2030. The volume of crops needed to feed cattle in the U.S.

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Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Outside of Charleston, South Carolina, in the picturesque marshes of the Kiawah River, sits more than 100 acres of working farmland. Seasonal crops rotate through expansive pastures, cattle graze the rich sea grasses and several colonies of bees hurry about their business. Tiny Timbers is a small agrihood in St.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 29, 2023

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. The next step is to get a greenhouse going in the fall and eventually scale up into a series of shipping containers.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Cattle grazing a warm season cover crop on Vilicus Farms (Photo Credit: Vilicus Farms) On August 16, 2022 when the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) was signed into law, it solidified an historic investment in addressing the climate crisis and reflected key priorities lifted up by the farmers and communities that NSAC’s members serve.

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Sustainable Food Trust

JANUARY 14, 2025

It was so refreshing to hear the experiences of two farmers, Richard Gantlett of Yatesbury House Farm, a 1500+ acre beef and arable holding in Wiltshire and Iain Tolhurst (a.k.a. Tolly), a small scale organic grower in the Thames Valley near Pangbourne, both of whom have experience over several decades which runs counter to this orthodoxy.

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The Counter

APRIL 27, 2022

They’d take a few hundred acres of both leased and family-owned central-Texas farmland—land that for decades had grown row crops of corn and cotton—and give it “what it wants back,” he said. By one estimate, storing an extra 2 percent of carbon in soil would return atmospheric greenhouse gases to “safe” levels. Here’s how the U.S.

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Modern Farmer

JULY 10, 2023

After a winter of record snow in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, a sudden warm spell melted the lower reaches, unleashing nearly 40,000 acre-feet of water —a volume equal to more than a tenth of Las Vegas’ annual supply—in 48 hours. His 580-acre farm grows enough forage to supply the herd, so “I’m good with where I’m at,” he adds.

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Agritecture Blog

MAY 12, 2023

Visitors to the rural area will notice that cattle ranches dominate the landscape, once covered by Amazonian forests. According to official figures from the Institute of Hydrology, Meteorology and Environmental Studies, the region lost 94,847 acres of forest in 2021 — almost 15,000 acres more than in 2020, the largest increase in the country.

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Civil Eats

JULY 17, 2023

López’s family moved to Salton City from Arizona in 2018 when her then-husband got a job working in greenhouses in the Imperial Valley, south of the sea. Imperial Valley grows an estimated two-thirds of the country’s winter vegetables , as well as alfalfa for animal feed—but cattle has remained the No.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JULY 14, 2023

Diversity within livestock systems, as with having chickens or small ruminants follow cattle in a pasture-based rotation, also provides multiple benefits, including pest suppression. agriculture toward more diverse landscapes that directly reduce greenhouse gasses and increase agrobiodiversity. All of these policies help to shift U.S.

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Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 20, 2024

A forthcoming analysis previewed exclusively by Grist found that, on average, the amount of time considered unsafe to work outside during a typical 9-to-5 workday will increase 8 percent by 2050, assuming greenhouse gas emissions stay on their current trajectory. Led by Naia Ormaza Zulueta, a Ph.D. Photography via Shutterstock.

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Sustainable Food Trust

MAY 31, 2023

Essington Farm is situated amidst beautiful countryside with cattle and sheep grazing or resting under gnarled oak trees and well-maintained hedges along the narrow roads. Next to the entrance is an eye-catching display of bedding plants which are grown in one of the farm’s greenhouses.

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RR2CS

MARCH 8, 2022

Instead, they set their sights northwest of the city and came to fall in love with 160-acres of “rough northern bush” in Barrhead County. Through careful observation of land and climate, Jenna and Thomas have gradually built two cabins, a greenhouse, an organic market garden, and apiary. That feels like a good place to be.

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Farming Farming Forage Seeding 52

Daily Yonder

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

In that same span, the number of farmed acres dropped from almost 900 million acres to 880 million—a loss in area the size of all the New England states, minus Connecticut, Vilsack noted. The number of cattle, the biggest source of agricultural greenhouse gas emissions—both from burps and manure storage—actually went down by 5.6

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Daily Yonder

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

His 50-acre farm sits in the bend of the meandering Lamoille River in northern Vermont. Despite their efforts, Marchant’s River Berry Farm quickly lost upward of 10 acres of crops, with lettuce and summer squash suddenly swimming in the flooded fields. He watched its banks warily as a steady downpour soaked the landscape.

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 19, 2024

In return, they are paid a yearly rental rate per acre of land enrolled in CRP programs. In 2023, he USDA Farm Service Agency made more than $1.77 billion in payments to agricultural producers and landowners enrolled in all CRP programs, and more than 23 million acres of private land in the US was being conserved.

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Sustainable Food Trust

MAY 31, 2023

To Which We Belong follows nine farms, from Montana to Maasai Mara, ranging in size from 1 to 30,000 acres and in what they each produce – from grass-fed beef and cheese to kelp. But what ties them altogether is how they farm: regeneratively.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 5, 2023

With instructions on how to choose the heartiest cultivars, “harden” them for winter, and outfit a greenhouse to keep vegetables just warm enough without using massive amounts of energy, The Winter Market Gardener makes a strong case for winter growing. That’s not to say growing food isn’t hard work.

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Civil Eats

MARCH 6, 2024

It’s a reference to cow’s greenhouse gas emissions, largely produced through belching , though passing gas contributes, too. In fact, livestock is the world’s largest source of anthropogenic methane emissions , a greenhouse gas more potent than carbon dioxide. Mitloehner, however, stands by his research and extension efforts. “My

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

JANUARY 8, 2024

billion Partnership for Climate-Smart Commodities grant program hopes to convince farmers and ranchers to adopt practices that will reduce their greenhouse gas emissions and sequester carbon in the ground. Share Tweet This Story’s Impact 44m weekly audience across platforms NPR The Biden administration’s $3.1

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Through this program, they work with cattle ranchers to steward ranchlands, which supports birds’ natural habitats. They currently have 13 urban agricultural facilities, school gardens, hydroponic greenhouses, and soil-based farms. To help feed the world sustainably, their goal is to conserve 10 billion acres of ocean, 1.6

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Sustainable Food Trust

MAY 1, 2024

Before 7 th October 2023 , farms and orchards covered almost half of Gaza’s total land area and more than 7,500 greenhouses contributed to an agricultural sector normally worth over $575m a year. Livestock including cattle, sheep, goats and poultry, were also raised. A third of Gaza’s greenhouses have been destroyed.

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Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

’s application for a farm loan in the mid-1980s, he went to a private lender who made him list as collateral all 20 of his cattle and his one bull. “I In an age of mechanized and industrialized agriculture, they face many challenges in operating a sustainable cattle farm—and there’s federal assistance to help with that.

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Civil Eats

MAY 29, 2024

And pesticides can be mislabeled, as in the case of dicamba , which was initially approved without protections to prevent drift and subsequently destroyed millions of acres of various crops, including soybeans and peaches. “Litigation has already revealed that companies have spent decades covering up harm,” he said.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 18, 2024

In Ohio, the average value was $8,040 an acre last year, according to the USDA. But in Central Ohio, a farmer recently sold 227 acres of farmland to Microsoft for $29 million. But it also has, cumulatively, released more heat-trapping greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere than any other machine on earth. Who could say no?

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JUNE 14, 2024

ARC and PLC payments are made not according to a farm’s real-time planting, but historical base acres. The National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC) views historical base acres as a safeguard against farmers “planting the program,” or planting commodities according to projections each season specifically to trigger payments.

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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

When it comes to energy production, the largest emitter of greenhouse gases —and the regulations that shape it and a number of other climate-related policies—the two candidates’ opposing approaches would have wildly different implications for the state of the climate—and the resulting stability of the food system. for instance.

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