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Lopes Family Farm Field Day: Integrated rice and duck farming

Caff

JULY 19, 2023

the Lopes provided a great demonstration of the unique equipment involved in the establishment of the rice (rice flat tray machine) and the transplanter machine (used to mechanically transplant the rice plugs into the field) allowing the attendees a great visual of the process and commitment involved in establishing their rice paddy fields.

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Opinion: Canada’s Ag Policies Need to Better Serve Local Farmers and Communities

Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Instead, it advocates for more capital-intensive automation and mechanization in line with the longstanding “bigger is better” agriculture policy of the past fifty years. Farmer-researcher Eric Barnhorst, for example, conducted research on regenerating fallow fields with the Ecological Farmers Association of Ontario in 2022.

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Regenerative Food Certification: Gold Standard or Greenwashing?

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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Winners of the 2022 Small Farm Innovation Challenge

Caff

JANUARY 20, 2022

Launched by Community Alliance with Family Farmers (CAFF), the Innovation Challenge solicited innovators from all backgrounds–farmers, students, entrepreneurs–all with the goal of shifting focus away from big ag and towards empowering the greatest number of farms, even those operating on just an acre or two.

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Regenerative Gardening, No-Till Winter Cover Crop Strategies

UnderstandingAg

OCTOBER 29, 2023

This is generally accomplished by mechanically removing plants by flail mowing, tillage, cultivation equipment, or by manual labor. Flail mow and direct seed with a grain drill – This is the best method in a larger-scale commercial garden (1+ acre).

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Your car is killing coho salmon

The Counter

MAY 17, 2022

The 5,000-acre reservation is nearby, and the Tribe’s Department of Natural Resources does restoration work along Ohop Creek. What mechanism is at work between 6PPD-quinone and the coho? This land is the ancestral home to the Nisqually Tribe, which currently has more than 650 enrolled members. Is it in the brain or the bloodstream?

Compost

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From Urban to Rural Agriculture — Reclaim Organics, Leduc County

RR2CS

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Eventually, they were growing food on 1-acre of land spread out on multiple plots throughout the city. Ryan’s land base increased from 1-acre’s worth of scattered plots in Edmonton to 6-acres, consolidated in one field. “It He ended up having to till under several acres worth of crops.

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MEDELLIN, COLOMBIA

The Lunatic Farmer

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Commodity productivity per acre is down across the board, driving prices up. A strong sense of ecological production practices exists and fortunately this country does not have to hit as severe an “undo” button as countries like the U.S. The sense among attendees was that chemical, industrialized models are running out of steam.

Manure

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Fifty years of nurturing nature

Sustainable Food Trust

JUNE 28, 2023

SFT CEO Patrick Holden and his wife Becky Holden farm 300 acres in West Wales and produce a raw milk cheddar called Hafod with the milk from their herd of Ayrshire cows. We farm 300 acres, and each field has its own unique identity, character and distinctiveness.

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Why we’re in a critical period in the development of regenerative agriculture

Agritecture Blog

JANUARY 27, 2023

PepsiCo wants to spread regenerative agricultural practices across seven million acres, while General Mills recently reported that 115,000 acres are currently enrolled in its regenerative programme (the target is 1 million acres by 2030). Interest in this space is certainly “heating up,” says Andy Zynga , CEO at EIT Food.

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PARALLEL ECONOMIES - AGRICULTURE

The Lunatic Farmer

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

But instead it shackled us, enslaved us to nefarious scientists bringing us fertilizer and menus from laboratories instead of from God’s ecological womb. Floating on a sea of cheap energy, these facilities promised mechanized farming and pharmaceutical health. We have millions of acres locked up. MECHANICAL VERSUS BIOLOGICAL.

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The Land Back Movement Is Also About Foodways

Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Deadly clashes on the Great Plains prompted the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868 , which created the Great Sioux Reservation spanning 60 million acres around the Black Hills. In Montana, for example, the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes now oversee 18,000 acres where bison roam once again. billion acres across the U.S.,

Acre

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Secrets of the swamp

Food Environment and Reporting Network

JUNE 25, 2024

At 60,000 acres, the proposed pool could swallow entire Florida cities. Eventually, the reservoir was whittled down to just 10,000 acres. When he first came to Florida to work as a hydrologist for the water management district in the 1980s, he had few ecological inclinations. Mechanical harvesters cut sugar cane in the U.S.

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