Civil Eats

JULY 2, 2024

The ice cream shop is an extension of the Nicholson family’s sixth-generation, 120-acre farm in nearby Ferndale. More Eyes Per Acre As one of California’s oldest cheesemakers, Rumiano Cheese has a storied presence in the North Coast’s dairy shed. Proper rotational grazing relies on pasture as the primary forage, cutting feed costs.

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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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Modern Farmer

JULY 10, 2023

After a winter of record snow in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, a sudden warm spell melted the lower reaches, unleashing nearly 40,000 acre-feet of water —a volume equal to more than a tenth of Las Vegas’ annual supply—in 48 hours. His 580-acre farm grows enough forage to supply the herd, so “I’m good with where I’m at,” he adds.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Prescribed grazing, for example, including forms such as management intensive rotational grazing that allow for short-duration presence of livestock on a given part of the landscape, can improve the quality of forage and increase the presence of native perennial plants. Some selections can increase yields and profits per acre.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JULY 14, 2023

And beyond the diversification associated with cropping fields, adding livestock diversity into a system can reduce challenges like pests and diseases while allowing for nutrient cycling from livestock to soil and back to crop or forage species. Mixed summer forage in the Southeast U.S.

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RR2CS

JANUARY 3, 2024

By Trina Moyles Glen and Kelly Hall have been managing Timber Ridge Ranch, a 480-acre farmland situated an hour south of Calgary near Stavely, Alberta, for over 40 years. Over the last four decades, they have seeded an impressive 5,000 acres, aiming to enhance biodiversity both above and below the soil. Absolutely.

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RR2CS

MARCH 8, 2022

Instead, they set their sights northwest of the city and came to fall in love with 160-acres of “rough northern bush” in Barrhead County. Of the 160-acres, Jenna and Thomas steward 25-acres to grow organic vegetables, herbs, and flowers and raise honeybees. Jenna: The hay field has been farmed fairly intensively since the 1920s.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

AUGUST 28, 2024

Each of these three conservation activities represents a holistic approach to improving conservation across an entire operation, either by requiring producers to adopt multiple practice enhancements on the same acres or to pursue ambitious, measurable soil health goals, such as increasing organic matter (OM) over the life of their CSP contract.

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Sustainable Food Trust

MAY 16, 2023

Our mission was to earn a living as full-time regenerative farmers on just 10 acres in South West Wales. We had aspirations to start producing Black Soldier Fly Larvae as an alternative sustainable protein source for our ducks, and to recruit earthworms to compost our duck manure, turning it into a super compost.

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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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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. Currently the amount of revenue that a landowner could get from having solar panels over an acre of land could be an order of magnitude more than they’d have from just growing crops.”

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

MAY 10, 2024

As with all programs, NSAC will continue to analyze the RPFSA’s CSP provisions, including a proposed one-time CSP subprogram focused on enrollment of up to 500,000 acres of native or improved pasture land used for livestock grazing in the Lower Mississippi River Valley to address water quality issues leading to hypoxia in the Gulf of Mexico.

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Civil Eats

JUNE 20, 2024

Meg Wilcox You Can’t Market Manure at Lunchtime: And Other Lessons from the Food Industry for Creating a More Sustainable Company By Maisie Ganzler Many, many years ago, I spent a long time covering the world of sustainable business practices. Additionally, they say, children must have a voice in policymaking.

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Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 5, 2023

It’s been a decent year at the 200,000-acre spread, with enough forage for the 2,000 mother cows and their calves. Other pastures on the 200,000-acre ranch—an area larger than New York City’s five boroughs—are traversed by the Susie and Maggie creeks that, thankfully, provide a year-round source of water.

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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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The Equation

AUGUST 10, 2023

The US agriculture sector covers 654 million acres of pasture and rangeland for grazing cattle and another 391 million acres to produce corn, soybeans and other field crop monocultures—and all of them pollute one way or another. Let me give you a better idea of what we’re up against. By 2017, they accounted for only 1.6

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