Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

The experience led him to start learning about regenerative agriculture and the benefits raising chickens could have for the soil fertility and sustainability of his nine acres. Industrial farming contributes around 11 percent of total US greenhouse gas emissions, not including the transportation of the food. I was so excited.

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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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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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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.

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