Civil Eats

OCTOBER 2, 2023

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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UnderstandingAg

APRIL 30, 2023

Some farms have limited acres to apply manure and feel forced to apply at maximum regulatory rates to get the pits emptied. Practices we have seen work well include: Keeping slurry application rates to 3000-4000 gal/acre/application. Applying to Italian ryegrass forage after each harvest.

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Civil Eats

MARCH 4, 2024

It’s no wonder that hospital food gets a bad rap, says Santana Diaz, executive chef at the University of California Davis Medical Center, a sprawling, 142-acre campus located in Sacramento, California. As a seeming compromise between nutrition and institutional efficiency, food has long been dished up as an afterthought to patient care.

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Agwired

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

DLF , the worldwide market leader in forage and turf seed, announced its acquisition of the Corteva Agriscience alfalfa breeding program effective September 1. Protect The Harvest is positioning itself for ongoing growth as it focuses on issues associated with food security, agriculture, property rights, and animal welfare.

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 23, 2024

On a crisp weekend this past fall, 30 state legislators from across the nation descended on TomKat Ranch , an 1,800-acre ranch focused on regenerative agriculture in Pescadero, California, an hour south of San Francisco. Their insight is essential to creating sustainable, culturally sensitive, and region-specific policies, she says.

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Agritecture Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2022

That would be solar panels that have been installed across 11 acres of the land where Sweetland farms blueberries in Rockport, Maine. Sweetland tends, harvests and sells the blueberries, and shares profits with the landowner. “We The University of Maine is studying this example of dual-use agrivoltaics.

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UnderstandingAg

DECEMBER 31, 2024

Early spring grazing is another advantage to having a stockpile of forage. When the snow melted off the fields, there was some green growth available amongst the stockpiled forage, and when spring arrived, we observed that the cattle were ready to return to grazing pasture rather than bale grazing. What class of livestock are they?

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UnderstandingAg

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

When he pushes a shovel into the soft, well-aggregated soil on his 240-acre farm near Ridgeway, Minnesota, Bergler sees more earthworms than he ever thought imaginable. Never applying more than 100 pounds of nitrogen per acre to his corn acres, Bergler harvests 230 bushel-per-acre corn behind a seven-way grain mix with peas and flax.

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UnderstandingAg

MAY 8, 2024

Concentrations of minerals in cereal rye forage at several developmental stages when harvested at a 4-inch height. Nutrient removal is a function of not only nutrient concentration but also forage yield. are on a per ton of dry matter basis for the forage. Results from several locations in Iowa (Dahlke, 2019). 93,09, and.93#

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

The tall forage stands out in southeastern Minnesota’s corn and soybean fields, which this time of year have been reduced to stubble poking through the snow. Instead, he wants his cattle to harvest their own feed via managed rotational grazing, even in the winter. Any day you can graze is better,” says Bedka.

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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 26, 2023

From climate risks to better work-life balance, a small but growing contingent of farmers is giving up summer crops to reap winter’s harvest. The National Park Service is working with a local tribe to determine how to safeguard the tule elk, which compete with cattle for forage in the dry season. We Explain Why.

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Farming Secrets

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Whether you’re plopped on a small plot of land or plodding through too many acres, take time to ponder the wealth waiting in the ground to be found and nurtured. Forage for native foods and herbs Discover useful plants growing naturally in nearby landscapes.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

JULY 5, 2023

slide-intro --> A remote Alaska village depended on the snow crab harvest for survival. million acres of the Central Valley. Herbicides and habitat loss have destroyed the bees’ forage. million acres of almond trees bearing nuts and another 300,000 acres of trees still too young to need pollination. has averaged 2.67

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

APRIL 25, 2024

slide-intro --> The ranching industry’s toxic grass problem By Robert Langellier , March 27, 2024 Buzzkill By Dan Charles , December 18, 2023 How mushrooms can prevent megafires By Stephen Robert Miller , July 10, 2023 A remote Alaska village depended on the snow crab harvest for survival. million acres of the Central Valley.

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

I’ve been a rural resident and a regenerative farmer for nearly two decades, currently operating an 81-acre farm in a remote corner of northeast Washington State. An easy way for farmers to do this is by allowing wildlife access to recently harvested or mowed fields.

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Caff

JUNE 29, 2021

Rebecca was recently notified by the State Water Board that she may be prohibited from pumping water from a well on the three acres that she leases. Fines for violating the order are as high as $1,000 per day of violation and $2,500 for each acre-food of water diverted. I won’t have any money coming in then.” She farms 1.5

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Sustainable Food Trust

AUGUST 6, 2024

Across seven chapters, each uncovering a different element of the Welsh landscape, Graves celebrates the diverse ecosystems of his homeland, revealing how the land has been transformed by humans ever since they first began harvesting wood and herding animals. Agriculture had not yet quite arrived as a practice and food was abundant.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 21, 2022

slide-intro --> A remote Alaska village depended on the snow crab harvest for survival. million acres of the Central Valley. Herbicides and habitat loss have destroyed the bees’ forage. million acres of almond trees bearing nuts and another 300,000 acres of trees still too young to need pollination. has averaged 2.67

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

JANUARY 11, 2023

slide-intro --> A remote Alaska village depended on the snow crab harvest for survival. million acres of the Central Valley. Herbicides and habitat loss have destroyed the bees’ forage. million acres of almond trees bearing nuts and another 300,000 acres of trees still too young to need pollination. has averaged 2.67

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

slide-intro --> A remote Alaska village depended on the snow crab harvest for survival. million acres of the Central Valley. Herbicides and habitat loss have destroyed the bees’ forage. million acres of almond trees bearing nuts and another 300,000 acres of trees still too young to need pollination. has averaged 2.67

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Civil Eats

JUNE 20, 2024

That changed, however, after Moyer and her partner established an organic farm on 10 acres in the Sierra foothills of California. The book spotlights Quabbin Harvest, a food co-op in downtown Orange, Massachusetts, a former mill town that has seen better days.

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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Just over a decade ago, he began converting his 11,000-acre farm to perennial native grassland to rebuild the health of his soil. He was specifically denied coverage for harvested crops grown in the grasslands. In Grotegut’s case, wheat grown in grasslands is certified as “mixed-species forage” by the USDA’s Farm Service Agency.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Our Staff Reporter Grey Moran has a delightful article about foraging , published in Grist, included in the book. smith Slow Drinks: A Field Guide to Foraging and Fermenting Seasonal Sodas, Botanical Cocktails, Homemade Wines, and More By Danny Childs Danny Childs studied ethnobotany in college. To make an amaro (relatively easy!)

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UnderstandingAg

JANUARY 11, 2025

Intensity Intensity includes both stock density (pounds of animal per acre during an individual grazing event) and the degree of forage utilization. However, we would not want to repeat these disruptions in the same manner on the same acres on a regular basis. We want to mix things up.

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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.,

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