Food Environment and Reporting Network

APRIL 25, 2024

We consume more than two pounds per person each year in our granola bars, cereals, milks, and regular old nuts, fueling an $11-billion market. Though concern about a bee shortage seemed acute this year, the pollination market for almonds has been tightening for more than a decade. million acres of the Central Valley.

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Orchard Acre Pesticide Farming 115

Food Tank

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

Tessema is currently investigating the potential of carbon markets in Africa and sees the assessment as a “timely resource” for furthering investment in the sector and the region. Many acres of native or unimproved grasslands in the American West are overgrazed and/or managed poorly, leading to soil carbon loss.

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Livestock Food Forage Agriculture 118

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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Agriculture Agriculture Farming Farming 145

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. system will likely have a resounding impact on the larger beef market in the state. That was never the focus of hospitals,” he adds.

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Pasture Ranching Supply Chain Cattle 142

Agwired

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Carbon Markets , a comprehensive look at current market activity, barriers to participation, and opportunities to improve access to carbon markets for farmers and forest landowners. Renovo Seed debuts with an elite lineup of more than 80 proven, prebuilt seed mixes that simplify forage, cover crop and conservation seed choices.

Seeding 59

Seeding Forage Yield Supply Chain 59

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 Forage Production Science 75

Food Environment and Reporting Network

JULY 5, 2023

We consume more than two pounds per person each year in our granola bars, cereals, milks, and regular old nuts, fueling an $11-billion market. Though concern about a bee shortage seemed acute this year, the pollination market for almonds has been tightening for more than a decade. million acres of the Central Valley.

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Harvesting Harvest Harvester Orchard 98

UnderstandingAg

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

Work is underway now to develop acceptable lab grown meats for the consumer market. In the words of Peter Byck, producer of the documentary Roots So Deep , on a 1,000-acre farm that amounts to 54 million gallons more water going into the soil. The standing forage biomass is often 300%+ higher.

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Food Cultivation Forage Production 96

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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Ruralism Food Farming Farming 110

Agwired

AUGUST 9, 2023

Lead authors Michelle Perez, AFT Water Initiative Director and Robert Parkhurst, President of Sierra View Solutions presented their analysis of 22 agricultural carbon market programs and recommended changes that would help these programs succeed. million acres, which is only about 6% of U.S. Today, cover crops are used on 15.4

Technology 52

Technology Supply Chain Acre Agriculture 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. Then I direct-market and sell the meat.” He purchases weaned calves and finishes most of them on an 80-acre pasture on the ranch.

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Ranching Livestock Acre Ecology 114

Agwired

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Daren Williams, a veteran public relations and marketing leader with significant experience across food and agriculture, has been named to lead the PR and reputation management practice at Curious Plot. Syngenta Group announced financial results for the first half and the second quarter of 2023. Sales for the first half of 2023 were $17.5

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Seeding Agriculture Agriculture Crop 59

Modern Farmer

MARCH 27, 2024

Environmental benefits Regenerative grazing—or closely managing where and for how long animals forage—is a farming practice that can improve soil health and plant diversity. “To be able to do things like graze a small hilltop for four hours and not eliminate all of the vegetative cover, it opens up an opportunity we never had before.”

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Pasture Technology Livestock Cattle 127

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

DECEMBER 15, 2023

After heavy grazing, a mixed summer forage is still building soil. Further, they have added nearly five acres of prairie strips. Rick Hartlieb, of Castanea Farms in Pennsylvania, has used local and state grant resources to help him plant acres of chestnuts and to shift his farm toward silvopasture.

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Pasture Crop Orchard Farming 100

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. As a result, smaller producers often face greater hurdles in adopting any practices that sit outside the mainstream.

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Agriculture Agriculture Ranching Food 142

Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 21, 2022

We consume more than two pounds per person each year in our granola bars, cereals, milks, and regular old nuts, fueling an $11-billion market. Though concern about a bee shortage seemed acute this year, the pollination market for almonds has been tightening for more than a decade. million acres of the Central Valley.

Orchard 52

Orchard Acre Pesticide Farming 52

Food Environment and Reporting Network

JANUARY 11, 2023

We consume more than two pounds per person each year in our granola bars, cereals, milks, and regular old nuts, fueling an $11-billion market. Though concern about a bee shortage seemed acute this year, the pollination market for almonds has been tightening for more than a decade. million acres of the Central Valley.

Orchard 52

Orchard Acre Pesticide Farming 52

Food Environment and Reporting Network

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

We consume more than two pounds per person each year in our granola bars, cereals, milks, and regular old nuts, fueling an $11-billion market. Though concern about a bee shortage seemed acute this year, the pollination market for almonds has been tightening for more than a decade. million acres of the Central Valley.

Farming 52

Farming Farming Orchard Acre 52

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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Agriculture Agriculture Crop Rotation Pasture 87

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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Farming Farming Manure Agriculture 98

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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Ranching Greenhouse Crop Pasture 72

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. Through careful observation of land and climate, Jenna and Thomas have gradually built two cabins, a greenhouse, an organic market garden, and apiary.

Farming 52

Farming Farming Forage Seeding 52

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.

Ranching 52

Ranching Forage Crop Cattle 52

Farmbrite

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Once you’ve figured out how many pounds each animal has gained or lost throughout its lifetime, multiply this number by its current market value to get its total value. This gives you an idea of whether selling your cow now would prove profitable for the ranch. The average conversion rate is between 1.25 pounds of gain per pound of feed.

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Cattle Ranching Acre Livestock 52

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. Caiti has also been forced to fallow some of her land.

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Family Farming Farming Farming Water Rights 52

Sustainable Food Trust

AUGUST 6, 2024

The author’s journey into landscapes of the past and the foods they provide takes him far and wide – starting in Çatalhöyük where humans first settled on the land becoming place-based, cultivating emmer wheat and barley, yet still hunting and foraging their food. Agriculture had not yet quite arrived as a practice and food was abundant.

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Food Farming Farming Processing 98

Agritecture Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2022

But blueberry land and other parcels of rural Maine are being increasingly eyed for housing development, and Sweetland feels the wild blueberry sector is under pressure, especially when blueberry market prices drop. We’re looking at everything from orchard crops like apples to potatoes to grazing systems to hay to forage,” he said.

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Agriculture Agriculture Construction Farming 52

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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Farming Farming Agriculture Agriculture 83

ATTRA

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Brett and Anna use multiple market channels, including farmers markets, on-farm sales, community supported agriculture (CSA) deliveries, participation in a food hub, and affiliation with the Edible Goose Creek farm alliance. Most of their beef, poultry, pork, and eggs are marketed directly to consumers and local restaurants.

Cattle 69

Cattle Pasture Poultry Family Farming 69

The Equation

AUGUST 10, 2023

UCS opposes allowing farmers to use offsets, carbon markets, or other flimsy instruments for climate claims until there are enough data and measurement systems to ensure that new practices actually reduce the sector’s climate impact. Let me give you a better idea of what we’re up against. By 2017, they accounted for only 1.6 million farmers.

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Food Farming Farming Agriculture 98

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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Food Farming Farming Seeding 145

Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

These plants comprised one of my most lucrative farm crops, and I was excited to bring fresh peppers to the market later that season. 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.

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Livestock Crop Farming Farming 139

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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Food Farming Farming Forage 145

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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Forage Pasture Acre Soil Compaction 64

Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

The ability [of] birds to forage and express natural behaviors also helps reduce stress, so the bird has a healthier immune system. Of course, the economics of small-scale livestock farming are punishingly difficult and it would require a sweeping overhaul of the food system to get more locally raised eggs from pasture to market.

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Poultry Pasture Food Farming 142

Civil Eats

JANUARY 28, 2025

Hes also an accountant, squaring the numbers for his central Minnesota farm by hand; a herder, rotating 75 cows between pastures; a crop farmer, raising 300 acres of feed like corn and hay; and a mechanic, repairing the equipment necessary to tend that acreage. Milking the Market Given the current state of the U.S.

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Farming Farming Pasture Meadow 133