National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Last week’s post highlighted the stories of farmers who have used practices from the Climate-Smart Agriculture and Forestry practice list to build climate resilience and mitigation solutions. Anthony, IN, has substantially reduced the impacts of downpours on his farm by adopting managed rotational grazing and improving his pastures.

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Civil Eats

AUGUST 29, 2023

Before RiCharde and his wife, Anna, took over Good Wheel Farm outside of Asheville in 2019, he managed the livestock operations for another farm in Western North Carolina. He’s still in the livestock business—cows, chickens, and goats all graze across Good Wheel’s 42 acres. And everywhere he looked, trees had leafed out.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Snapshot of a page of the Climate-Smart Agriculture and Forestry Mitigation Activities List In addition to reducing tillage, increasing the presence of plant matter through other means can also accomplish parallel increases in organic matter. Perennial livestock systems have similar capacities to reduce vulnerability to climate impacts.

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Agritecture Blog

MAY 12, 2023

According to official figures from the Institute of Hydrology, Meteorology and Environmental Studies, the region lost 94,847 acres of forest in 2021 — almost 15,000 acres more than in 2020, the largest increase in the country. The stream had dried up because it had been deforested. “It

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

MAY 10, 2024

Excessive proposed cost-share payments for livestock feed management. improving irrigation efficiency, restoring pasture, cover cropping, or nutrient and pest management). Retargeting two-thirds of the 50 percent EQIP set-aside for livestock practices towards advanced grazing management.

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Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

I stood a chance of losing my livestock,” Johnson wrote in a 1999 affidavit to receive part of a $2.3 Some environmental groups have criticized EQIP for earmarking 50 percent of all funding for livestock practices, Coppess said. sits on a feed pail in the pasture of his family farm near Lexington, Mississippi, on Nov.

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