Sustainable Food Trust

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Hundreds of acres of Bristol farmland, with its meadows and hedges and resident wildlife, was swept away by the concrete sprawl and the ambitions of its new owners. Catherine’s grandparents became the tenants in 1967 and they later managed to buy the house and outbuildings and 28 of the 61 acres that made up the farm.

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Farming Farming Meadow Acre 145

Civil Eats

JUNE 27, 2024

She points out that most of the shellfish she harvests these days have been seeded manually by the town of Southampton and local universities, “almost like a science project,” she says. The Scientists Who Kickstarted American Kelp Farming The science behind this boom in seaweed cultivation began in New England nearly 50 years ago.

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Harvest Harvesting Harvester Farming 144

Agwired

DECEMBER 21, 2023

bushels per acre in this year’s annual National Corn Growers Association yield contest with Pioneer brand corn product P14830VYHR. Hula crushed his previous world record of 616 bushels per acre set in 2019 with the Pioneer brand P1197 family of products. David Hula of Charles City, Virginia, set a new world record of 623.84

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

In modern times, there’s a long tradition of techno-optimists or cornucopians–science writer Charles C. But in the Vaud, the fields were relatively small, a few dozen acres at most, and people were careful to plant fruit and nut-bearing trees alongside the edges.

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Food Pasture Livestock Poultry 143

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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Cattle Technology Ranching Acre 98

Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

What we do know is that the virus is now endemic in some wild birds, like wild ducks that move through our country, says Carol Cardona, a professor of veterinary and biomedical sciences at University of Minnesota. We know that is partially why we keep getting these seasonal outbreaks.

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Poultry Pasture Food Farming 142

The Equation

OCTOBER 17, 2024

A new peer-reviewed study in the journal Science said the range of possible protection loss is between a fifth of nontidal wetlands to nearly all of them. Court Rejects Decades of Science The ruling was hailed by industrial and agricultural polluters and developers. Photo by Derrick Z. Bush and Democrat Barack Obama.

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