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Stewarding Success: IRA Funding is Cultivating New Conservation Acres and Farmers

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

The IRA funds target climate-smart agriculture and forestry, with FY2023 marking the first year that these funds were used to fund CSP contracts that included climate-smart practices. Promisingly, socially disadvantaged producers accounted for 23% of total CSP acres funded by the IRA FY2023.

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The Silicon Valley of Agriculture

Farmbrite

Furthermore, it aims to cultivate a new workforce equipped with the skills to thrive in this era of robotics, mechatronics, and computer coding. The management of the institute is a collaborative effort between the university's Office of Research and Economic Development and the Division of Agriculture, Forestry, and Veterinary Medicine.

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PFAS Shut Maine Farms Down. Now, Some Are Rebounding.

Civil Eats

In late 2021, the Maine DEP identified 60 sites where 10,000 cubic yards of biosolids were applied as fertilizer with homes within half an acre of the application, a practice the agency called “Tier 1” because it presented the highest risk to human health. The spreading of sludge as fertilizer remains legal in all U.S.

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Farmer Conservation Stories: Why Inflation Reduction Act Funding Must Remain Focused on Climate Change

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

Last week’s post highlighted the stories of farmers who have used practices from the Climate-Smart Agriculture and Forestry practice list to build climate resilience and mitigation solutions. Further, they have added nearly five acres of prairie strips. Rotationally grazed cattle behind an electric fence. We appreciate your work!

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A Blueprint for Cooling our Blue Planet

Farming Secrets

So, if it can’t be measured it does not exist! It can be summarised as follows, water is the thermostat of the blue planet, water vapor turns up the heat and water in the ground or in vegetation turns down the temperature.

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RELEASE: Young Farmer Leader Sedrick Rowe to Testify Before Senate Agriculture Committee on Barriers to Credit and Risk Management

National Young Farmers Coalition

Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry in a hearing titled Perspectives From the Field: Risk Management, Credit, and Rural Business Views on the Agricultural Economy Part 3. Rowe operates Rowe Organic Farms , a 30-acre farm in Albany, GA, where he cultivates organic peanuts, watermelons, sunflowers, and hemp.

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Colombian Farmers Turn Deforested Land into Sustainable Amazonian Farms

Agritecture Blog

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. The stream had dried up because it had been deforested. There was a lot of burning in this area.

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