Civil Eats

AUGUST 29, 2023

He’s still in the livestock business—cows, chickens, and goats all graze across Good Wheel’s 42 acres. His vision has gotten a jump start through a partnership with Carbon Harvest. Michael RiCharde herds sheep down a slope on Good Wheel Farm in North Carolina, part of the Carbon Harvest carbon market.

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Transparent tarps nailed to the ends of a half-finished greenhouse whipped in the wind behind him. Even on a compact farm like Small Axe, which spans only four acres — the national average is 446 acres — there was much to be done: crop rotations to plan, greenhouse doors to finish, a new shed to build. Still, W.E.B.

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Civil Eats

MARCH 18, 2024

But even during these dormant months, across 17 rolling acres just 30 miles east of Washington, D.C., Three acres of meadows provide habitat for insects. Compared to staple crops like corn and rice, wine grapes barely occupy a speck of the world’s farmland, at about 18 million acres. Grape harvest photo courtesy of Dodon.

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DTN

JULY 24, 2023

Two neighbors, Farmer A and Farmer B: both farm 1,000 acres and use the same crop rotation schedule. reduced tillage, cover crops, treed acres). Trackable events include plowing, minimum-till cultivation, crop rotation, crop type, cover crop presence, irrigation events, harvest date, and crop residue presence.

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Modern Farmer

JULY 24, 2023

He powered the greenhouse with on-site solar panels, opted for natural pest control instead of synthetics and sold his products in recyclable, 99% plastic-free packaging. “It’s The outdoor plants grown on his 57-acre outdoor farm, however, grow for four to six months and require much more water “because they’re massive.”

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Caff

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

She designed an innovative solution for their small farm which has dramatically improved their process for harvesting and drying crops such as onions and garlic. Large farms have other means of curing onions, but there was a gap for the small farm on how to harvest and dry onions with fewer steps while using minimal storage space.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 1, 2024

acre Niwot Homestead in a suburban yard that belongs to a family she found through Nextdoor. “We Amy Scanes-Wolfe harvesting sunflowers at Niwot Homestead. Backyard farms may need infrastructure for things ranging from drip lines and irrigation systems to hoop houses or greenhouses.

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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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Daily Yonder

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

His 50-acre farm sits in the bend of the meandering Lamoille River in northern Vermont. By 7:30 the next morning, he and his crew were out in the mud, trying to harvest all they could save. As the climate changes, American farmers face a slew of new threats to their harvests and business models. Soon, the river began to rise.

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Agwired

JANUARY 31, 2024

Ecosystem Services Market Consortium (ESMC)’s Eco-Harvest is one of only two agricultural carbon programs to achieve 3rd party SustainCERT validation and verification for project Impact Units. Eco-Harvest Impact Units, and supporting programmatic documentation, are listed on SustainCERT’s VIVID platform.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 29, 2023

On the back 16 acres of Walla Walla Community College, 30 Red Angus cows stand munching on hairy vetch, ryegrass and other cover crops that were planted to help restore the soil. The next step is to get a greenhouse going in the fall and eventually scale up into a series of shipping containers.

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Agritecture Blog

MARCH 3, 2023

During a normal year, he typically harvests about 150 bushels per acre of corn. Last year, he averaged only 22 per acre. It doesn’t take a whole lot of rain to make a good yield for the sorghum crop,” said Rendel, who plants about 1,000 acres of grain sorghum each year on his 5,000-acre farm.

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 15, 2024

He plans to harvest some grasses as hay for animal bedding and weed control. Exactly how far inland the salt encroaches will depend partially on how effective humans are at reducing greenhouse gas emissions, as rising temperatures and melting ice sheets are the main contributors to the ocean’s expansions.

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Agwired

JANUARY 3, 2024

Midwestern corn and soybean growers earned more than $140,000 in 2023 for reduced greenhouse gas emissions and increased soil carbon through implementing regenerative agriculture practices. These producers received both payments and technical assistance from Nutrien Ag Solutions as part of their participation in Eco-Harvest pilot projects.

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 15, 2024

Small footprint, big potential “Microgreens” is a term used to describe the tender, edible seedlings of various herbs, vegetables and grains typically seeded in shallow, soil-filled trays, grown under natural or artificial light, then harvested within two weeks of germination. acre lot has ample space for the growing business.

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Agritecture Blog

MAY 23, 2023

The term is meant to capture the nuance between different agricultural methods that are often promoted as competing against each other, [such as vertical farms and greenhouses,] when in fact, they overlap, and various combinations of them can reap greater environmental, economic, and social benefits than any one solution alone.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 28, 2023

Payne operates a 300-acre regenerative farm in Concordia, Missouri, an hour outside of Kansas City, where he raises sheep and cattle. Payne said it’s likely he’ll make more money on 30 acres of chestnut trees than he would on 300 acres of row crops like corn. Farmers can use trees they already own.

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Agritecture Blog

MARCH 1, 2023

While it is true that much of the equipment that field farmers use on a daily basis is petroleum based and produces carbon dioxide in the neighborhood of 22 lbs of CO2 per gallon of fuel burned, it must be considered that this equipment is often serving hundreds, if not thousands, of cultivation acres. of the American Farmland Trust.

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Civil Eats

MAY 8, 2024

Anand Prasad stands next to harvested curry leaves ready for drying in his drying shed. Once he removed the dying trees, junk cars, and beer bottles strewn over the few acres, he enriched the topsoil with wood chips and planted curry leaf trees. But he missed his parents’ farm in Fiji where they grew curry leaf trees.

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Agritecture Blog

MAY 5, 2023

Hylant can build policies for any scale CEA operation, from container farms all the way up to multi-acre greenhouse facilities. offers dedicated support– from design to harvest. Hylant Group Credit: Hylant Group. Hylant Group offers commercial insurance for CEA operations. Greener Crop Inc. Credit: Arabian Business.

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Civil Eats

APRIL 3, 2024

The issue most cited across critiques was simple: When urban farms were separated from community gardens in the study, the higher rate of greenhouse gas emissions reported essentially disappeared. Overall, they found greenhouse gas emissions were six times higher at the urban sites—and that’s the conclusion the study led with.

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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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Civil Eats

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Jordan Macknick from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory—which conducts agrivoltaics research in California—includes solar combined with specialty and commodity crops, solar with livestock, solar with land providing pollinator habitat or ecosystem services, and solar-integrated greenhouses in the list of approaches. In November, U.C.

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Sustainable Harvest International

JULY 19, 2022

By: Florence Reed , Founder + Director of Sustainable Harvest International With the war in Ukraine, the global food crisis looms large, given that Ukraine is a major global exporter of both wheat and chemical fertilizers. The recent rise in food prices is buoyed by increased fertilizer, energy, and transport costs.

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Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

I had to rely on others to eat, and it was really difficult,” says Bista, who is one of six refugee farmers employed by New Leaf Agriculture, a 20-acre organic operation located in Manor, Texas. Bista’s son Bal is New Leaf’s chicken and greenhouse manager, and he and his in-laws also have community farmer plots.

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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. Sakari Farms offers a program that teaches youth how to grow and harvest traditional foods.

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Civil Eats

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Until a few years ago, Songbird Farm in Unity, Maine, grew wheat, rye, oats, and corn, as well as an array of vegetables in three high tunnel greenhouses, and supported a community-supported agriculture (CSA) program for over 100 customers. The spreading of sludge as fertilizer remains legal in all U.S.

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Civil Eats

JUNE 29, 2023

Finally, in 2017, they convinced Sakuma Brothers Farms—which occupies more than 1,500 acres in Washington State—to sign a pioneering collective bargaining agreement. And after the group had fixed the farm up, putting up a greenhouse, and breathed new life into its rows of red raspberries, the owner wanted it back.

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ATTRA

JANUARY 2, 2024

High tunnel kale crop for harvest through the fall. Secondly, we know that for each percent of organic matter above 2%, a nitrogen credit of about 20 pounds per acre can be considered before applying nitrogen fertilizer for a crop. For many fall and winter crops, this means no additional nitrogen is needed at all.

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 8, 2024

We’ve got 150 acres of grain.” Prior to that, they had all either harvested by hand, an intensely laborious process, or hired someone with a combine. They spread out the cost through a fee structure based on either the number of acres on which the equipment is used or the number of hours it is in use.

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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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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 21, 2023

Although proponents argue that a shift to lab-grown practices can dramatically lower greenhouse gasses, as well as reduce both land and water usage, some detractors claim that cultured meat may actually be worse for the environment than the real thing. He believes there will always be a market for animal-harvested meat done right.

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Hartwood Farm

MARCH 24, 2022

Those commitments could include a particular set of tractors and implements, or certain field layouts or greenhouses or barns or market delivery systems and so on. But we aren’t set up to grow our entire 40 acres of tillable fields in carrots or potatoes. Height of nimbleness?

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Civil Eats

OCTOBER 21, 2024

And of course, it’s not like for every PLNT Burger sold, a factory farm gives up five acres of land, or releases a cow from the slaughter line—actually meaningful solutions to the factory meat problem. Nor has eating plant-based meat made a significant impact on beef production, according to a 2023 report. We had been at $2.50

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Sustainable Harvest International

OCTOBER 8, 2024

New York, United States - Small-scale farmers in the global south hold the key to over 50% of the United Nations’ goal for net greenhouse gas reductions. That was the message from Florence Reed of Sustainable Harvest International (SHI) at the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) annual meeting in late September.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

JULY 13, 2023

Department of Agriculture (USDA) program, this amalgam of farming methods aims to keep the American agricultural juggernaut steaming ahead while slashing the sector’s immense greenhouse gas footprint. Others say science has yet to prove that climate-smart practices truly reduce greenhouse gas emissions. “We It’s a greenwashing scheme.

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Agwired

MARCH 1, 2024

Craig Curry, 70, a Protect The Harvest advisor since 2013, succumbed to a lengthy battle with health issues on Feb. cotton acres. The Agribusiness Association of Iowa (AAI) Foundation announced that its building will be named after Bill Northey and simply called “The Northey Building”. A Greenwood, Ind.,

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