UnderstandingAg

OCTOBER 29, 2023

Now, as I design landscapes for my residential clients close to home—and work with farmers and ranchers as a consultant with Understanding Ag—I see better how we can’t really parse out the home landscape “flower beds” from the vegetable garden, or either of those from the 1,000-acre fields of wheat or corn in the Midwest and Great Plains.

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Soil Science Science Soil Compaction Pesticide 93

Civil Eats

MARCH 4, 2024

It’s no wonder that hospital food gets a bad rap, says Santana Diaz, executive chef at the University of California Davis Medical Center, a sprawling, 142-acre campus located in Sacramento, California. As a seeming compromise between nutrition and institutional efficiency, food has long been dished up as an afterthought to patient care.

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Pasture Ranching Supply Chain Cattle 142

Modern Farmer

JULY 3, 2023

They monitored orchards for symptoms and cut down infected trees. Andres’ orchard was among the first in BC to trial the new varieties in 2011. Andres recalls walking politicians through ravaged hazelnut orchards, making a case for government financial support to help keep the industry alive. Photography by Peter Andres.

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Orchard Acre Production Processing 98

Agwired

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

“Hurricane-force winds and torrential rains destroyed fall crops still in the field, knocked down pecan orchards that growers spent decades cultivating, and damaged a million and a half acres of timberland,” said Ossoff. ” Sen.

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Orchard Crop Poultry Cultivation 45

Civil Eats

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The front bucket was half full as he drove the tractor forward on a gentle slope of his 10-acre produce and poultry farm in Greensboro, Georgia. Most of the rollovers in Washington occurred on crop farms, including the state’s signature apple orchards. Gerhardt, now 66, farms organic hay on his own 10-acre field in Mohawk, NY.

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Tractor Farming Farming Acre 138

Sustainable Food Trust

MAY 1, 2024

Before 7 th October 2023 , farms and orchards covered almost half of Gaza’s total land area and more than 7,500 greenhouses contributed to an agricultural sector normally worth over $575m a year. Livestock including cattle, sheep, goats and poultry, were also raised. Don’t leave us alone, we’re not okay.”

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Farming Farming Livestock Food 127