National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

For example, the Census shows increasing use of key practices like conservation tillage and cover crops and durable protection of acres in conservation easements. million acres with cover crops (a 17% increase) in 2022 than in 2017 and a 50% increase in acres with cover crops from 2012. Since the 1997 high of 66.4

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Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Sprouting deep within the verdant pleats of Oʻahu’s Koʻolau Mountains, Heʻeia stream winds through Kakoʻo ʻOʻiwi , a non-profit organization centered on a six-acre taro farm, before emptying into the wide mouth of Kane‘ohe Bay. One acre can bank about a foot of water,” he says. “If

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

million-acre Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation , where she grew up, the county is among the poorest areas in the United States. The Brewers run cattle and grow some alfalfa across 12,000 acres of grassland that’s a combination of owned land, leased tribal land, and federal trust land. Encompassing part of the 1.4-million-acre

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Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Farmer-researcher Eric Barnhorst, for example, conducted research on regenerating fallow fields with the Ecological Farmers Association of Ontario in 2022. There should be room for the promotion of agro-ecological and organic farming practices.

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Modern Farmer

MAY 28, 2024

His 2,500-acre family farm is patchwork across 40 miles of land the family owns and leases, and grows organic corn, soy, wheat and specialty crops such as beans and peas. Somewhere between 10 million and 20 million acres is, we believe, possibly a tipping point where regenerative organic ag could become inevitable,” says Taylor.

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Food Tank

APRIL 9, 2024

The event is being held in partnership with NY Common Pantry, Restaurant Associates, LES Ecology Center, Compass Group, Acre, the Green Bronx Machine, ReFed, and Wheyward Spirits. The event will be streaming live at FoodTank.com. from 5:45-8:00PM ET. Learn more now by clicking HERE.

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Food Ecology Acre 52

Sustainable Food Trust

JUNE 5, 2024

A development where political development, economic development, cultural development and ecological development go hand in hand. In the end, they contribute to carbon sequestration in the soil, at five, six, seven tonnes an acre – at least – a year. “Sustainable development from our understanding is holistic development.

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Acre Ecology Supply Chain Agriculture 111

Modern Farmer

MARCH 31, 2025

Farms come in all shapes and sizes, from a thousand-acre field planted in corn to a quarter-acre parcel supporting thirty different types of vegetables. Increasing the types of crops present in an area can provide numerous ecological and economic benefits.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

OCTOBER 9, 2024

It does this by providing farmers with financial and technical assistance to actively manage, maintain, and expand conservation activities – like cover crops, rotational grazing, ecologically-based pest management, buffer strips, and the transition to organic farming – even while they work their lands for production.

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Wisconsin Farmers Union

OCTOBER 9, 2024

She had an emphasis in Ecological Restoration of Wetlands and Prairie. Eventually the couple settled on a 80 acre farm, where they’ve been for the past 34 years. Kari currently manages the farm’s 20 acre hay field for rare grassland birds, including meadowlarks and bobolinks. The field was very skewed towards men.

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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Chris Chmiel of Integration Acres in Albany, Ohio, started the Ohio Pawpaw Festival in 1999 and has since heard countless stories of people’s relationships with the fruit he says has become “a symbol of our Appalachian heritage.” He’s visited three years in a row and sounds pained to admit that work will keep him away this September.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 24, 2023

Land to Market brand certifies land through its third-party Ecological Outcomes Verification (EOV) methodology developed by Savory Institution founder and TED Talk phenomenon Allan Savory more than 20 years ago as a management tool for graziers. million acres of organic certified land in the US. Photography courtesy of Cabriejo Ranch.

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AgriLife Today

JULY 18, 2023

However, Texas A&M AgriLife experts warn ranchers that the more than 100 million acres of statewide grazing land they rely on may still be recovering. Texas Crop and Weather Report – July 18, 2023 Early summer and subsequent rains helped Texas’ native rangelands bounce back from drought. Bill Fox, Ph.D., director of the Texas A&M.

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Acre Crop Ecology Ranching 95

Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

They farm on 130 acres of the land on which her father and grandfather had raised hogs. Photos courtesy of Wendy Johnson) To date, Johnson has planted 6,000 trees on 20 acres of their fields, with plans to double the number of trees. Elderberry, becoming popular as a hedgerow crop, provides both farm income and ecological benefits.

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Acre Pasture Farming Farming 126

Food Tank

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Migratory fish play essential ecological roles, and their declines impact Indigenous cultures, natural heritage, and vulnerable populations’ livelihoods and nutrition,” says the report.

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UnderstandingAg

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Farming and ranching involve the fields of biology, ecology, chemistry, botany, physics, geology, meteorology, politics, economics, psychology and mechanics, just to name a few. By Kyle Richardville Understanding Ag, LLC About the Understanding series Agriculture isnt rocket science. Its much more complex than that.

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Civil Eats

AUGUST 23, 2023

The catastrophic fire that just ravaged more than 2,000 acres and at least 2,000 homes on Maui, and claimed 114 lives and counting is inextricably linked to the island’s agricultural history. Maui’s last sugar mill, the 36,000-acre Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar, Co. (HC&S), They put up a mansion; they have a horse.

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Modern Farmer

JUNE 24, 2024

It broke up the people and the ecology of the landscape and parceled it into the British land title system. SD: Yeah, we work with farmers who are doing agri-ecology, who want to do education and train. And now we’re in 2024, we have market failure conditions for agriculture. MF: And then lastly, there’s access to knowledge.

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Acre Farming Farming Ecology 115

Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

At her 6-acre Sakari Farms outside Bend, Oregon, Schreiner employs traditional ecological knowledge to cultivate regional first foods —foods consumed before European colonialization—and passes that expertise down to Native American youth. Spring Alaska Schreiner, owner of Sakari Farms outside Bend, Oregon.

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Civil Eats

JULY 15, 2024

Its quarter-acre lot houses custom-built tool sheds and water pumps, solar panels for charging phones and e-bikes, and a motorized sifter designed by Benn. BK Rot is part of a diverse ecology of community compost organizations throughout New York City. I actually like the smell,” Gross said during a break from work.

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Compost Food Ecology Processing 140

Caff

JULY 19, 2023

Claire talked about the process of getting started in selling products to school districts and the importance of marketing your unique ecological story. Claire Tauber from CAFF’s Farm to Market team, Miguel Alvarez and Hanna Kahl from CAFF’s Ecological Farming team. hosting school trips). From left to right.

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Family Farming Farming Farming Ecology 52

Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The 260-acre ranch butts up against the West Elk Mountains, four miles east of the West Elk Wilderness, almost smack-dab in the middle of where gray wolves could be released this winter. He purchases weaned calves and finishes most of them on an 80-acre pasture on the ranch. Every few years, he said, all 260 acres will be grazed. “I

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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

DECEMBER 7, 2023

The farm grows seasonal fruits and vegetables on 10 acres in the semi-arid, unincorporated area of Pauma Valley in central San Diego County, on land it rents from the Pauma Band of Luiseño Indians; they partnered with the Luiseño to create a “carbon sink demonstration farm.” Ellee Igoe and Hernan Cavazos. or ‘Are you able to grow that?’

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Food Tank

APRIL 2, 2024

Acres of Ancestry Initiative/Black Agrarian Fund The Acres of Ancestry Initiative/Black Agrarian Fund is a multidisciplinary, cooperative nonprofit ecosystem that aims to regenerate custodial land ownership, ecological stewardship, and food and fiber economies in the American South.

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Modern Farmer

APRIL 8, 2024

Witt’s home in South Egremont is a scant mile from Indian Line Farm, the nation’s first CSA; together, the pair of plots represents 28 total acres stemming from another of Witt’s passion projects. Conservation land trusts can play a key role in developing land-use plans with ecological considerations.

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Farmland Ecology Cultivation Farming 87

Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

They expanded from just half an acre to having 10 acres at Viva Farms and 10 acres on a nearby piece of land. Viva Farms owns or leases over 100 acres in Washington state. Farias’s brothers left to pursue other careers, and his wife Lorena joined him as co-owner. And then that nearby land went up for sale.

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ATTRA

MAY 13, 2024

The USDA Forest Service is partnering with States to conserve nearly 168,000 acres of economically and ecologically significant forestlands across the nation through the Forest Legacy Program. USDA is providing more than $154 million for 26 projects to conserve working forests that support rural economies in 17 states.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

When farmers are able to control how, where, and when their animals move between pastures, they can more easily accomplish ecological goals that might include increasing soil carbon, reducing water pollution, or incorporating trees. At night, the goats sleep in a barn built in the mid-1800s from large blocks of local stone and weathered wood.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 26, 2023

As the Salton Sea Shrinks, Agriculture’s Legacy Turns to Dust As drought dries up the shallow sea, near a half-million farmable acres in the Imperial Valley, farmworkers living nearby are exposed to toxic dust and airborne pollution from algae blooms. Asthma, allergies, and other health impacts are rising at alarming rates.

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Your book talks a lot about “road ecology.” Ben Goldfarb: Road ecology is the field of scientific study that looks at how roads and other transportation infrastructure affect nature and what we do about those impacts. A lot of road ecology is about why roadkill happens and what its effects on populations are and how to prevent it.

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Modern Farmer

OCTOBER 16, 2023

The White Oak Initiative , a group of researchers, government agencies and industry insiders dedicated to conservation, estimates that there are more than 100 million acres of white oak across the US, and roughly 75 percent of that is mature. But it’s also incredibly important ecologically. It’s a money-maker for the forestry industry.

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Embry now lives alongside his cousin in Richmond, Kentucky, on the 30-acre Ballew Farm, named after his great uncle Atrus, who died at age 100. I’m a beekeeper and I love all those momma bees that go out and gather pollen and nectar on our 15-acre pollinator conservation project as part of our 30-acre family farm.

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Modern Farmer

MARCH 20, 2024

carbon emissions) by another large number (yield per acre), you get a small number of carbon emissions associated with each serving of lettuce, for example. By reconnecting with food, with ecology, with living soil, we connect to climate solutions and help to reverse the damages of climate change. from U.C.

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Civil Eats

APRIL 22, 2024

The isolation of this ecologically rich archipelago of peaks, located in a “sea” of desert that stretches from northern Mexico into southern Arizona, means that plants grow here that don’t grow anywhere else.

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Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 6, 2023

We were in the parking lot of Island Center Forest, a 440-acre wooded park home to miles of hiking trails and one large pond where birdwatchers flock. Later, his focus shifted to urban ecology. By the end of the decade, an estimated 300 acres of western Washington were dedicated to holly. He chose St.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 15, 2023

Bren Smith, who started the regenerative ocean farming company GreenWave , writes in his book Eat Like a Fish that anyone with $20,000 and a boat has enough to start harvesting 10 tons of kelp per acre — and net as much as $120,000 per year doing it, given they find the right buyer. The two states account for more than 85 percent of the U.S.

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