Agwired

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

The Transform F2C project incentivizes producers to implement climate-smart practices, such as cover cropping, conservation crop rotation and reduced tillage practices. These practices reduce greenhouse gas emissions, promote carbon sequestration and improve soil health.

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Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

I had to rely on others to eat, and it was really difficult,” says Bista, who is one of six refugee farmers employed by New Leaf Agriculture, a 20-acre organic operation located in Manor, Texas. At age 30, she was forced to seek asylum in Nepal, and for the next 19 years, she was unable to work or grow her own food. “I

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Farmbrite

APRIL 25, 2023

Introduction to crop irrigation systems Irrigation systems are an important part of growing crops, and they can be crucial when it comes to crop yields. Without proper irrigation, many crops would not be able to grow at all. Drip irrigation Drip irrigation is one the most popular types of crop irrigation systems.

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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. Over 5,000 acres of ranchland are participating by implementing climate-smart grazing practices that will enable access to these markets.

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ATTRA

APRIL 16, 2024

Introduction COMET-Planner is a web-based greenhouse gas (GHG) evaluation tool used to provide modelled estimates of the greenhouse gas impacts of certain conservation practices utilized across various agricultural landscapes. To answer that question, we use a tool called COMET-Planner. tonnes per year, not zero.

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DTN

JULY 24, 2023

Measuring a farm’s carbon footprint is not as simple as saying, “Cover crops were used, so that grain’s sustainably grown.” Two neighbors, Farmer A and Farmer B: both farm 1,000 acres and use the same crop rotation schedule. Farmer A tills 30% of their fields, uses cover crops on 20%, and applies anhydrous ammonia.

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 2, 2024

In one of the greenhouses on the Lundberg Family Farms acreage in northern California, there sits a binder. Rice growing in one of the Lundberg Family Farms test greenhouses. Rice is a critical global crop, responsible for about 20 percent of the calories people consume. Photography by author.

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Agritecture Blog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

With real-time dimming based on natural light levels, growers can provide uniform lighting at the head of the crop throughout the entire photoperiod. Studies show that lighting for different lettuce cultivars enables the grower to improve outcomes for each crop. Further, lighting a crop beyond its saturation point can damage the plant.

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DTN

AUGUST 29, 2023

Scope 3 reporting requirements Upcoming Greenhouse Gas Protocol Scope 3 emission reporting requirements will entail companies to report the amount of carbon emitted during the production of the ingredients they purchased. In this example, 99 kg/acre of CO 2 e emissions were sequestered due to sustainable farming practices.

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Civil Eats

MARCH 18, 2024

But even during these dormant months, across 17 rolling acres just 30 miles east of Washington, D.C., Three acres of meadows provide habitat for insects. Compared to staple crops like corn and rice, wine grapes barely occupy a speck of the world’s farmland, at about 18 million acres. the landscape is filled with life.

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Modern Farmer

OCTOBER 6, 2023

I boasted about how indigenous flowers would aid pollinators that suffer from habitat loss, store greenhouse gasses and create a buffer against drought and heavy rains. I knew that the US’s 40 million acres of lawns contribute to greenhouse gas emissions through consistent mowing and drink up to nine billion gallons of water daily.

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Agritecture Blog

MARCH 3, 2023

Editor’s Note: Sorghum is not a well-known crop in the states, but this drought-tolerant crop could be a farm-saving plant in regions like the American Great Plains. Like many of the neighboring farms in his northeast corner of Oklahoma, his corn crop practically shriveled up due to the lack of moisture. Credit: Peggy Greb.

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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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Modern Farmer

JULY 24, 2023

He powered the greenhouse with on-site solar panels, opted for natural pest control instead of synthetics and sold his products in recyclable, 99% plastic-free packaging. “It’s Turning Grass Blue Cannabis is a water-intensive crop. The elephant in the room,” says Mahon, “is LED lighting.”

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World Agri-Tech

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Nitrogen fertilizer is an expensive yet essential crop nutrient, supporting the food supply of half the world’s population. That’s a problem, because if your microbes get outcompeted in a matter of days, they can’t make a meaningful amount of fertilizer over the crop growing season. and internationally.

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Agwired

JANUARY 10, 2024

A team of Agricultural Research Service (ARS), university and industry scientists has spotted a new genetic vulnerability to tolpyralate herbicide in 49 varieties of corn, marking the first report of the weed control posing a danger to the staple crop. Gowan Crop Protection Limited , an affiliate of Gowan Company, L.L.C.,

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 28, 2023

Payne operates a 300-acre regenerative farm in Concordia, Missouri, an hour outside of Kansas City, where he raises sheep and cattle. Payne said it’s likely he’ll make more money on 30 acres of chestnut trees than he would on 300 acres of row crops like corn.

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Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

acre farm in Escondido, near Camp Pendleton, in between tours. After ending his service in 2006, Archipley and his wife established Archi’s Acres , an organic hydroponic farm that supplies basil and other specialty crops to local restaurants and stores. Inside the Archi’s Acres greenhouse. It’s a huge talent pool.”

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 1, 2024

acre Niwot Homestead in a suburban yard that belongs to a family she found through Nextdoor. “We Backyard farms may need infrastructure for things ranging from drip lines and irrigation systems to hoop houses or greenhouses. She moved on to manage a two-acre cut flower parcel at a large market farm for a couple of years.

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 15, 2024

Unlike most crops, the grasses don’t mind being submerged and can hold salt in their roots and excrete it through glands in the blades. What exactly that will look like is still developing and it will likely include growing new crops in new places.

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Agwired

AUGUST 15, 2024

Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced it intends to establish the Greenhouse Gas Technical Assistance Provider and Third-Party Verifier Program Advisory Council (informally known as the Growing Climate Solutions Act Advisory Council) and is seeking nominations for Council membership. bushels per acre. Register here.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Black polyethylene “mulch film” gets tucked snugly around crop rows, clear plastic sheeting covers hoop houses, and most farmers use plastic seed trays, irrigation tubes, and fertilizer bags. All told, annual greenhouse gases released from plastic production, landfilling, and incineration total 850 million tons , or 4.5

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

The use of land for grazing cattle, as opposed to more productive crops or carbon-sequestering forests and prairies, is a key issue for critics of the beef industry—and grass-fed cows require more land than those finished in grain in feedlots. Carman saw how deep the benefits could go.

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Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 1, 2023

“We lost 10 percent of our saleable Christmas trees that year,” says Leanna Anderson, owner of Aldor Acres Family Farm in Langley, British Columbia and treasurer of the BC Christmas Tree Association. Photo courtesy of Aldor Acres Farm. Photography courtesy of Aldor Acres Farm. degrees Fahrenheit by 2080.

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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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World Agri-Tech

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Nitrogen fertilizer is an expensive yet essential crop nutrient, supporting the food supply of half the world’s population. That’s a problem, because if your microbes get outcompeted in a matter of days, they can’t make a meaningful amount of fertilizer over the crop growing season. and internationally.

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Agritecture Blog

MAY 5, 2023

Credit: Greener Crop. With the addition of this new category, we have four new partners that have joined us in our journey: The Best Bees Company , Hylant Group , Greener Crop Inc. , Hylant can build policies for any scale CEA operation, from container farms all the way up to multi-acre greenhouse facilities.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

DECEMBER 15, 2023

They were lucky enough to have crop insurance to cover their losses, but many farmers are not so lucky. Other means of managing weather risk are, like crop insurance premiums, funded by the federal government. He does not till his farm, and he plants extensive cover crops. Rotationally grazed cattle behind an electric fence.

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ATTRA

DECEMBER 6, 2023

That’s when I started actually using biochar on my crops, doing workshops, and teaching farmers how to make it.” The second is an abundance of forest and sawmill waste, which releases greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere if left to decompose. I had this huge, eye-opening experience,” Hardin said.

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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. As part of its efforts to foster a new crop of farmers, earlier this y ear, the USDA announced it would be investing $262.5 It’s truly full circle.”

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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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ATTRA

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Over the next five years, the program hopes to sign up 100 agricultural operations and impact two million acres of land. At least 40 percent of all program benefits will go to small and underserved farmers, and a special initiative is encouraging Black farmers in southern states to grow climate-smart cotton.

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ATTRA

JANUARY 2, 2024

Higher temperatures can speed crop growth and increase demands on the soil. Close plant spacings, quick crop successions, and extended seasons, typical in tunnel production, add to those demands. With increased crop successions comes increased soil preparation and tillage that can impact soil structure.

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Daily Yonder

JULY 12, 2023

(Photo courtesy of Root Capital) Breeding new varieties of crops is one way farmers are working to mitigate the impacts of a changing climate, he said. So if you’re a coffee farmer or a cocoa farmer or macadamia farmer, these are already shrub or tree crops, and they actually do really well with other trees around them,” she said. “So

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Civil Eats

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Until a few years ago, Songbird Farm in Unity, Maine, grew wheat, rye, oats, and corn, as well as an array of vegetables in three high tunnel greenhouses, and supported a community-supported agriculture (CSA) program for over 100 customers. Consumption of crops or animals grown on PFAS-contaminated land puts humans at high risk of illness.

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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. As part of the Federal Crop Insurance Act of 1980, the U.S.

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Civil Eats

MAY 8, 2024

Photo credit: Mary-Rose Abraham) Apart from home growers, the curry leaf tree is also a burgeoning crop for a few specialty farms and nurseries scattered across warmer regions such as California, Florida , Hawaii , and Texas. The disease has devastated millions of acres of citrus crops and greatly reduced citrus production.

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