Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Her approach is that new conservation, finance, opportunities that are directly accessible to tribes should be decided upon. One is the Clean Communities Investment Accelerator (CCIA) program , part of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund (GGRF) program. Mary Oxendine. Courtesy of Mary Oxendine.

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Sustainable Food Trust

AUGUST 9, 2023

Yet, at present, if you farm in ways that reduce greenhouse gas emissions, increase biodiversity and deliver a range of social benefits, you are likely to make less money than if you farm extractively.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 20, 2024

If we took 5 percent of the acres and diverted them into almost anything that wasnt a commodity, its literally an additional $2.5 In the Delta, it is around 1 percent, and those farms cover, on average, less than 100 acres. Today Peebles has expanded to 2,000 acres, all organic. today it is less than 2 percent.

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Civil Eats

AUGUST 29, 2023

He’s still in the livestock business—cows, chickens, and goats all graze across Good Wheel’s 42 acres. But rather than reduce fossil fuel use directly in their supply chains, some choose to offset their pollution by buying “carbon credits” designed to reflect greenhouse gasses taken out of the air elsewhere.

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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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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Wild Weather Threatens Farm Viability Although the IRA funds are directed at greenhouse gas mitigation, many forms of agricultural climate mitigation also increase farm resilience. At the same time, they decrease greenhouse gas emissions. Some selections can increase yields and profits per acre.

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World Agri-Tech

OCTOBER 17, 2024

October 17, 2024 Since featuring at the summit in March 2024, Switch Bioworks has gone from success to success, recently raising $17M in series seed financing to bring new biological fertilizer technology to the field. and internationally. What is driving your commercialization strategy? Science first.

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Agritecture Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Conversations on the controlled environment agriculture space usually lead to comparisons between vertical farms (VFs) and greenhouses (GHs). Our analysis reveals that vertical farm operators are indeed outdueling greenhouse operators, but not by much – $3.3 Credit: Greenhouse Grower. billion (55%) to $2.3 billion (55%) to $2.3

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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. He watched its banks warily as a steady downpour soaked the landscape.

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

As her business grew from a small plot in a backyard garden to the five-acre farm she purchased in 2019, Taylor tapped into USDA cost-share contracts that reward conservation practices. I had primarily done cut flowers as annual crops or grew in a greenhouse, so I didn’t have a lot of experience or knowledge of perennials.

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Agritecture Blog

MARCH 17, 2023

million to buy three parcels totaling 222 acres off East Buckeye Road, east of Interstate 39-90. “It It will restore 70 acres of wetlands and create hiking and skiing trails for residents.” “The The group has already spent $4.9 It will preserve farmland and grow food to feed people. It will be cooperative and governed by residents.

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The Counter

APRIL 27, 2022

They’d take a few hundred acres of both leased and family-owned central-Texas farmland—land that for decades had grown row crops of corn and cotton—and give it “what it wants back,” he said. By one estimate, storing an extra 2 percent of carbon in soil would return atmospheric greenhouse gases to “safe” levels. Here’s how the U.S.

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World Agri-Tech

JANUARY 3, 2024

Kiersten Stead, Managing Partner, DCVC BIO: “ Farmers don’t like “paying by acre”, incentives are perverse. Let’s stop trying to force agtech companies and investments to fit the Silicon Valley mold, and instead let’s leverage innovative financing to resource solutions for agriculture.

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Sustainable Food Trust

MAY 31, 2023

Next to the entrance is an eye-catching display of bedding plants which are grown in one of the farm’s greenhouses. With roughly 230 acres, the farm is relatively small, says Simkin, but “with pigs you can still work at scale, have a viable business and provide excellent animal welfare”.

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Modern Farmer

JUNE 24, 2024

In Ontario, the Fair Finance Fund has a national fund for BIPOC candidates, because those candidates weren’t able to get their loans from the traditional lenders. Photography via @youngagrarians/Instagram But there’s a big lending gap in the country today. And many people realize, ‘oh, yeah, that’s right. I can’t do that.

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Agritecture Blog

JANUARY 27, 2023

CONTENT SOURCED FROM JUST FOOD Written by: David Burrows January 27, 2023 Danone ’s greenhouse gas emissions are around 26MtCo2e, and agriculture accounts for 61% of them. Mead has targeted the sequestration of 100,000 tonnes of carbon across the 2,000-acre ‘home farm’ over the next 40 years, for example.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

MAY 10, 2024

They help farmers and ranchers keep drinking water clean for our urban and rural communities, build soil resilience and limit the impacts of severe drought and flooding, provide healthy habitats for wildlife, mitigate agriculture’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and support farm operations that are productive and sustainable long-term.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 27, 2023

They currently have 13 urban agricultural facilities, school gardens, hydroponic greenhouses, and soil-based farms. Their Food Is Medicine Task Force aims to integrate food is medicine interventions into policy and finance to support nutrition security. billion acres of land, and 620,000 miles of rivers.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Moreover, they have more potential to contribute to greenhouse gas mitigation via carbon sequestration. Reducing greenhouse gas emissions means moving away from the use of high-energy and polluting nitrogenous fertilizers. per planted acre of seed in 1990 paid $93.48 Diverse plants and manure must take their place.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 24, 2024

40 Acres & A Mule Project , United States 40 Acres & A Mule seeks to acquire Black-owned farmland to be used to celebrate and preserve the history, food, and stories of Black culture in food and farming. The food system cant change overnight, but the flow of finance can, says Dharshan Wignarajah, CPIs UK Director.

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National Young Farmers Coalition

DECEMBER 20, 2024

FSA is currently unable to offer pre-qualification or pre-approval services for farm ownership loans, yet this service is routinely offered by other lenders working with competing buyers for farm properties, which puts buyers who must use FSA financing at a disadvantage.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

AUGUST 9, 2023

Despite the arid conditions, there are plenty of reasons why farmers in the Southwest grow cotton, including the market, availability of financing, past experience, and the tools at hand. the vast majority of payouts go to corn, soybeans, wheat, and cotton, which are planted nationally on the most acres.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JUNE 14, 2024

ARC and PLC payments are made not according to a farm’s real-time planting, but historical base acres. The National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC) views historical base acres as a safeguard against farmers “planting the program,” or planting commodities according to projections each season specifically to trigger payments.

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