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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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). Data collection and projection to compare sustainable farm practices To help estimate values for other variables, including the use of carbon products, panels of farmers are interviewed.

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Civil Eats

OCTOBER 4, 2023

.” Scientists, farmers, and advocates agree that one of the biggest barriers to rolling out agrivoltaics in California—the national leader in solar energy , agricultural production , and even on-farm solar —is a need for more state-specific research. Internationally, many countries in Europe and Asia are ahead of the U.S.

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Farming Farming Technology Acre 132

Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

His mom, Christy Walton—widow to Sam’s son John—has a net worth of about $11 billion, which she has used to fund restaurants, large ocean aquaculture projects, and a 40,000-acre ranch that offers a “regenerative experience” to tourists and has acted as a site for research on land and livestock management. It won’t be easy.

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

The experience led him to start learning about regenerative agriculture and the benefits raising chickens could have for the soil fertility and sustainability of his nine acres. Yet, there were few resources to help with marketing your product, finding customers, getting sales and becoming profitable. Things started working.

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

The use of land for grazing cattle, as opposed to more productive crops or carbon-sequestering forests and prairies, is a key issue for critics of the beef industry—and grass-fed cows require more land than those finished in grain in feedlots. Carman began collaborating with another fourth-generation family farmer.

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ATTRA

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Carbon stored in this form can be added to soil to improve moisture retention, nutrient availability, and aeration and create habitat for beneficial soil microbes, all of which can potentially boost soil productivity. It’s just cascading the benefits of what this product does.”

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Poultry Greenhouse Yield Manure 93

Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Outside of Charleston, South Carolina, in the picturesque marshes of the Kiawah River, sits more than 100 acres of working farmland. But unlike neighboring farms that focus on production for faraway markets or keep a single family afloat, the farm at Kiawah River is supporting 185 families who live in the surrounding homes.

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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. “We Compared to staple crops like corn and rice, wine grapes barely occupy a speck of the world’s farmland, at about 18 million acres. the landscape is filled with life.

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Farming Farming Meadow Crop 133

Wisconsin Farmers Union

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

But the key points are: The National Farmers Union has supported the ethanol industry as it has helped farmers maintain a stronger market and has reduced the greenhouse gas emissions of the transportation industry. about 300,000 acres from 2002 to 2014. The overall energy production of ethanol is positive.

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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. Some farms were able to stop production temporarily while they identified possible solutions.

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Farming Farming Farmland Crop 131

Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 1, 2023

“We lost 10 percent of our saleable Christmas trees that year,” says Leanna Anderson, owner of Aldor Acres Family Farm in Langley, British Columbia and treasurer of the BC Christmas Tree Association. Photo courtesy of Aldor Acres Farm. Photography courtesy of Aldor Acres Farm. degrees Fahrenheit by 2080.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Patrick Brown, who was named North Carolinas Small Farmer of the Year by North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University this year, grows almost 200 acres of industrial hemp for both oil and fiber, and 11 acres and several greenhouses of vegetablesbeets, kale, radishes, peppers, okra, and bok choy.

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Plantation Farming Farming Acre 140

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. His family was hardly alone in doing so: Along with cattle, corn and soybeans make up the top three farm products in the U.S., But also because I’m worried that in our area it’s getting hotter and drier.”

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Livestock Farming Farming Cattle 89

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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Modern Farmer

MARCH 20, 2024

Urban ag is any kind of food production space within a city, inclusive of commercial farms that grow and sell directly to consumers, non-profit farms that serve a broader mission, community gardens, school gardens and even vacant lots turned into thriving personal gardens or homesteads. Back up a step: What is urban agriculture?

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Agritecture Blog

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

and Gotham Greens are bringing greenhouse-grown produce and fresh, plant-based foods to more customers across the country. By using hydroponic growing systems in sunlight-powered greenhouses, Gotham Greens' farms use up to 95 percent less water and 97 percent less land compared to field-grown farming.

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 15, 2024

I could triple [production] and still be able to operate it from my home,” says DiLillo. Customers now include nearby restaurants, and with business booming, he’s put a 10-by-20-foot greenhouse in the backyard and hopes to upgrade to a larger vertical farming structure in the near future.

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Cultivation Crop Real Estate Food 96

Food Tank

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

Below the surface, these crucial ecosystems sequester carbon , drawing it out of the atmosphere where it contributes to the greenhouse gas effect. Many acres of native or unimproved grasslands in the American West are overgrazed and/or managed poorly, leading to soil carbon loss. In terms of the assessment’s impact on U.S.

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DTN

AUGUST 29, 2023

To meet consumer demands for sustainably produced food In the past, knowing where food products came from (country of origin labeling) was one of the top concerns for many consumers. Now, the concern is not only where a food product came from but also how its ingredients were grown.

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Beverage Food Farming Farming 52

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. who will direct the new project. “As

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The Lunatic Farmer

JANUARY 18, 2024

We are on the cusp of the deepest, fastest, most consequential disruption in food and agricultural production since the first domestication of plants and animals ten thousand years ago. This means that by 2030, modern food products will be higher quality and cost less than half as much to produce as the animal-derived products they replace.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 20, 2024

If we took 5 percent of the acres and diverted them into almost anything that wasnt a commodity, its literally an additional $2.5 In the Delta, it is around 1 percent, and those farms cover, on average, less than 100 acres. Today Peebles has expanded to 2,000 acres, all organic. today it is less than 2 percent.

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Acre Farming Farming Crop 85

Agwired

OCTOBER 30, 2024

2023 Report Agriculture Highlights By The Numbers ● Denali’s recycling efforts produced enough natural fertilizer to support more than 100,000 acres of farmland and manufactured enough animal feed to nourish over 40,000 cattle across five states. The report also notes the company collected 1.7 According to US EPA calculations, converting 1.3

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Agwired

OCTOBER 17, 2024

The Iowa Soybean Association’s Midwest Climate-Smart Community Program, which now has over 1800 farms enrolled in climate-smart production. The resulting corn, soy, sugar beats and wheat supply insetting markets where corporate entities aim to reduce their greenhouse gas footprint.

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Ranching Greenhouse Acre Marketing 45

Civil Eats

MAY 8, 2024

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. The disease has devastated millions of acres of citrus crops and greatly reduced citrus production. A former co-worker gave them a sapling in a one-gallon pot.

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Seeding Greenhouse Farming Farming 100

ATTRA

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Participating farms and ranches will work with experts to create a tailored plan that identifies opportunities to bring more carbon into soils and vegetation and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

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Textiles Manufacturing Ranching Greenhouse 75

Modern Farmer

AUGUST 21, 2023

So, our focus is how does cultivating meat ultimately replace a large-scale production of animal protein?” They also hand-butcher their products and sell them direct-to-consumer at farmer’s markets and pop-ups. But not everyone agrees that cultivated meat should replace traditionally produced animal protein. Photography by Good Meat.

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Cultivation Food Production Poultry 91

Food Environment and Reporting Network

MARCH 27, 2024

The disorder, fescue toxicosis, costs the livestock industry up to $2 billion a year in lost production. In Elk Creek, Missouri, cattle stand in a pond to cool their fever caused by fescue toxicosis, which costs the beef industry as much as $2 billion a year in lost production. It’s a longstanding problem, and it’s spreading.

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Ranching Pasture Forage Cattle 108

Sustainable Food Trust

AUGUST 9, 2023

Yet, at present, if you farm in ways that reduce greenhouse gas emissions, increase biodiversity and deliver a range of social benefits, you are likely to make less money than if you farm extractively. This is why so many of the small family dairy farms producing milk from fewer than 100 cows have disappeared in recent years.

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Food Farming Farming Greenhouse 98

Civil Eats

JANUARY 15, 2024

As far as commercial production of corn and soy, it’s probably not viable anymore,” Zander said. 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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Farming Farming Meadow Greenhouse 98

Agritecture Blog

MARCH 1, 2023

My previous post was focused on the carbon footprint of crop transportation from the lettuce production regions on the West Coast of the US to East Coast Markets. The thought experiment concluded with a rough figure that each lb of moved product incurs about ⅓ of a pound of CO2 in the process. of the American Farmland Trust.

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Cultivation Vertical Farming Acre Yield 52

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. However, sorghum in the U.S.

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Grain Farming Farming Biofuel 52

Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

We can start treating trees about two months out of the greenhouse and jump on those trees early,” says Gerrard. “By The new form of precision application not only allows growers to cut down on how much product they use but Gerrard says he hopes it can be used to “stack” treatments together in the future.

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Yield Acre Technology Pesticide 95

Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Climate Change Resource Center recognizes agroforestry, the intentional integration of trees and shrubs into agricultural practices, as a promising option to weave productivity and profitability into sustainable and resilient farming systems. Demonstrating what works For many farmers, seeing is believing.

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Farming Farming Crop Production 84

World Agri-Tech

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

At Switch, we’re pioneering a ‘switchable’ engineering approach that enables microbes to first compete and establish themselves on plant roots before switching on fertilizer production.” Nitrogen fertilizer is an expensive yet essential crop nutrient, supporting the food supply of half the world’s population.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Wild Weather Threatens Farm Viability Although the IRA funds are directed at greenhouse gas mitigation, many forms of agricultural climate mitigation also increase farm resilience. At the same time, they decrease greenhouse gas emissions. Some selections can increase yields and profits per acre.

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