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. However, critics highlight their outsized environmental impact, including excessive water use and pollution caused by concentrated waste, as well as greenhouse gas emissions.

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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 I think ARS’s coordinated national response and team approach to science for solving citrus greening is a model for other challenges in tree and fruit crops,” says Tim Rinehart, a national program leader with ARS, in an email.

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The Equation

MAY 11, 2023

Our main study, “ Water, environment, and socioeconomic justice in California: A multi-benefit cropland repurposing framework ,” was recently published in the journal Science of the Total Environment. million acre-feet per year (576 billion gallons per year). million acre-feet per year. square miles).

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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. who will direct the new project. “As

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Civil Eats

OCTOBER 4, 2023

“I see it as a key player for maintaining food security for the 10 billion people who will be inhabiting this planet by 2050,” Abou Najm said during a recent panel discussion convened by the California Council on Science and Technology (CCST). “I states have standards for panel height and shading. In November, U.C.

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ATTRA

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Over the next five years, the program hopes to sign up 100 agricultural operations and impact two million acres of land. At least 40 percent of all program benefits will go to small and underserved farmers, and a special initiative is encouraging Black farmers in southern states to grow climate-smart cotton.

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 15, 2024

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. Given the sliver of land—about a 16th of an acre—the duo initially had doubts about the business’ profitability.

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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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Daily Yonder

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

His 50-acre farm sits in the bend of the meandering Lamoille River in northern Vermont. Despite their efforts, Marchant’s River Berry Farm quickly lost upward of 10 acres of crops, with lettuce and summer squash suddenly swimming in the flooded fields. He watched its banks warily as a steady downpour soaked the landscape.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 8, 2023

Alfalfa hay, the nutrient-rich backbone of the dairy, beef and horse industries in the West, produces more protein per acre than any other field crop. To grow that much alfalfa would require about 100 acres of land with about 50,000 gallons of water every day, he estimates. But it comes at a great cost to the region’s water supply.

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Agritecture Blog

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

An underground greenhouse currently under construction in Pine Ridge. As these communities grapple with climate change and historical inequities, they create innovative solutions, such as these underground greenhouses. In an underground greenhouse, Raycen Raines (right) helps harvest microgreens that are donated to the community.

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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. Photosynthetic is a brand by award-winning LED technology pioneer Rift Labs, pushing the boundaries of the science of light for more than a decade. Hylant Group Credit: Hylant Group.

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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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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.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

MARCH 27, 2024

Farmers learned to live with the health impacts of the toxic version, and today it remains the primary pasture grass across 37 million acres of farmland. Matt Poore, a professor of animal science at North Carolina State University, chairs the Alliance for Grassland Renewal, a national organization dedicated to eradicating toxic fescue.

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World Agri-Tech

OCTOBER 13, 2023

The College of Agriculture and Life Sciences will distribute more than $56 million to producers to enact climate-friendly practices and serve as a pilot program for a national model. It is the largest grant received in the university’s history. Virginia Tech leads the pilot project, known as the Alliance to Advance Climate-Smart Agriculture.

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UnderstandingAg

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

It reduces greenhouse (GHG) gas emissions. Is there science that supports the claims that are being made? 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. It uses less land, feed, water, and antibiotics.

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World Agri-Tech

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Since World Agri-Tech San Francisco, March 2024, Switch raised $17M in Series Seed funding, which will be used to complete product development of our first carbon-neutral biological nitrogen fertilizer, including initial scale-up fermentation and formulation as well as greenhouse and field trials in the U.S. Science first.

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Agwired

JANUARY 10, 2024

The finding, reported in the December issue of Pest Management Science , will enable farmers to avoid crop losses, such as by choosing a tolpyralate-tolerant variety or by using a different herbicide product. At the Consumer Electronics Show (CES2024) this week, 3M is unveiling a 30 ft.

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Civil Eats

MARCH 11, 2024

The accumulation of carbon in the soil effectively slows the carbon cycle, causing carbon to linger in the ground for a longer period of time rather than quickly releasing into the atmosphere, where it takes the form of carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas driving climate change. He mostly grows salad greens across 3 acres of farmland.

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Civil Eats

JULY 17, 2023

López’s family moved to Salton City from Arizona in 2018 when her then-husband got a job working in greenhouses in the Imperial Valley, south of the sea. And new science about the connection between water pollution and air quality suggests more investment is needed. 1 commodity for the last 64 years.

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Agritecture Blog

JANUARY 27, 2023

CONTENT SOURCED FROM JUST FOOD Written by: David Burrows January 27, 2023 Danone ’s greenhouse gas emissions are around 26MtCo2e, and agriculture accounts for 61% of them. Mead has targeted the sequestration of 100,000 tonnes of carbon across the 2,000-acre ‘home farm’ over the next 40 years, for example.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JUNE 22, 2023

The Agriculture Resilience Act (ARA) includes provisions that will reduce greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture by supporting farmers and ranchers with farm-driven, science-based means to meet climate goals. Farmer and crop insurance agent, Landon Plagge of Green Acres Seed Co. in Iowa, concurred. “I

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World Agri-Tech

JANUARY 3, 2024

If you can’t afford to exit, everyone loses – the founders, the investors, and the incredible science and engineering under development. Kiersten Stead, Managing Partner, DCVC BIO: “ Farmers don’t like “paying by acre”, incentives are perverse. The heroes are CSOs and CTOs.

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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

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AgriLife Today

AUGUST 18, 2023

Agency receives property donation from George Webb Slaughter descendants Over 900 acres of the George Webb Slaughter Ranch in Palo Pinto County will serve a new Texas A&M AgriLife Research initiative to ensure the economic and environmental prosperity of Texas agriculture and natural resources production.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 7, 2022

New research suggests that cover crops may struggle to make a significant dent in agriculture’s greenhouse gas emissions. And they raise the risk of additional acres being plowed up to compensate for the lower yields. But as the hype for cover crops mounts, so does the scrutiny. percent for corn and 3.5

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Operating as One CGIAR to take a cohesive, coordinated approach across all organizations in their network, they utilize research to drive science and innovation and tackle pressing global and regional challenges. This year, they were the recipient of the Pax Natura Foundation’s annual environmental prize.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 24, 2024

40 Acres & A Mule Project , United States 40 Acres & A Mule seeks to acquire Black-owned farmland to be used to celebrate and preserve the history, food, and stories of Black culture in food and farming. As we enter a new quarter century, here are 125 organizations to follow and support in 2025.

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Agwired

MARCH 1, 2024

This global brand will represent and unify all the emerging industry segments of crops grown in controlled environments, including greenhouses, hoop houses and high tunnels, operations using shading or netting, vertical farms, container farms, and more. cotton acres. The Agricultural Retailers Association disagrees with this decision.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 5, 2023

In this 2023 Holiday Book Guide, you’ll find reviews of memoirs, personal essays, histories, science writing, journalism, cookbooks, guidebooks, and photo collections—written by our editors, staff writers, and freelance contributors. In addition to our top picks for holiday giving, you’ll find a roundup of our recent book coverage.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

MAY 10, 2024

They help farmers and ranchers keep drinking water clean for our urban and rural communities, build soil resilience and limit the impacts of severe drought and flooding, provide healthy habitats for wildlife, mitigate agriculture’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and support farm operations that are productive and sustainable long-term.

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Civil Eats

MARCH 6, 2024

It’s a reference to cow’s greenhouse gas emissions, largely produced through belching , though passing gas contributes, too. Dr. Frank Mitloehner , a professor in the animal science department of U.C. In fact, livestock is the world’s largest source of anthropogenic methane emissions , a greenhouse gas more potent than carbon dioxide.

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Civil Eats

JULY 12, 2023

Yesterday, the agency took a big step toward refining its definition of that term by announcing a major initiative intended to improve the data it uses to guide efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture and make farms more resilient to climate change. We have to have accurate, reliable measurements of the impact.

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National Young Farmers Coalition

DECEMBER 20, 2024

2501); requires at least 80% of the funds to be used for easements that will most reduce, capture, avoid, or sequester greenhouse gas emissions associated with land eligible for the program as laid out in the IRA (Sec. This program is critical for equipping farmers with the science-backed research they need to fight the climate crisis.

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The Equation

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Geostatistics can be applied to any spatially dependent data, and it is commonly used in environmental science investigations. When I coauthored a 2018 peer-reviewed study in Science , for instance, I predicted where a particularly hazardous pesticide called chlorpyrifos could pollute waterways that manatees use to migrate in Florida.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

APRIL 10, 2024

Of her 150 acres, only about 25 are safe for agricultural use, forcing Hunter to resort to raised garden beds in a greenhouse, filled with soil shipped in from another site. This is “real-world science,” Smith says, watching a colleague snip plants and collect soil samples. Stay in the Loop!

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