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. While the affected sites are situated across the state, most are concentrated in agricultural areas.

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AgriLife Today

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

In addition to providing protection from drought, heat and pests, wax could generate extra revenue for producers Already valued for its resilience, biomass production and ability to improve soil fertility, bioenergy sorghum has another attribute that researchers have recently characterized: high wax production.

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Todays Farmer Magazine

APRIL 30, 2024

The Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute at the University of Missouri celebrates its 40th year in 2024, but there wasn’t much celebratory news in FAPRI’s latest baseline projections. The report was released in March and summarized at the Abner Womack Missouri Agriculture Outlook Conference on April 3 in Columbia.

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DTN

JUNE 26, 2023

The market for sustainable ingredients is continually expanding due to an increasing number of food, pet food, and biofuel companies setting goals to reduce their environmental impacts. Many farmers have already implemented practices that fit under the sustainable agriculture umbrella. Why grow sustainable grain?

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Food Tank

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Boochcraft partners with The Ecology Center for the advancement of regenerative agriculture. The vineyards are weeded only using hoes, never herbicides, and fertilized with manure. They practice biodynamic agriculture to encourage biodiversity and cultivate successful vineyards without pesticides or herbicides. In 2016, Rhum J.M

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Agritecture Blog

MARCH 3, 2023

In the States, Sorghum is currently used mainly for creating biofuels and feeding livestock, but incorporating it into the American diet could have a long-lasting positive impact on our environment. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to increase production and develop the sorghum marketplace. However, sorghum in the U.S.

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Todays Farmer Magazine

APRIL 28, 2023

Marc Rosenbohm, senior research associate with the University of Missouri’s Food & Agricultural Policy Research Institute, discusses the crop outlook during the 2023 Abner Womack Missouri Agriculture Outlook Conference on April 12 in Columbia. Based on forecasts by S&P Global analytics firm, U.S.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 15, 2023

Now seen as a “future-proof” material, seaweed is a hardy, fast-growing protein source useful for everything from biofuel to petroleum-free plastic to consumer goods like utensils , soap , clothing , and of course, food. Seaweed is a “zero-input crop,” meaning it doesn’t need any additional food, fertilizer, or freshwater to grow.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

JULY 10, 2023

Down where the Rocky Mountains meet the plains, in pockets of forest west of Denver, mycologists like Zach Hedstrom are harnessing this unique trait to transform fire fuel into a valuable asset for local agriculture. For Hedstrom, the idea sprung from an experiment on a local organic vegetable farm. We can use those resources.”

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Agwired

AUGUST 28, 2024

In an effort to identify and celebrate global trailblazers working in food and agriculture, the World Food Prize Foundation has launched its first-ever Top Agri-food Pioneers (TAP) List. Verbio is showcasing its technology and competencies in creating green energy and organic fertilizers at this year`s Farm Progress Show in Boone, Iowa.

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World Agri-Tech

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Next Spring, Olam Food Ingredients will be conducting a field trial with Nitricity’s calcium nitrate fertilizer. Geopolitical conflicts threatening fertilizer supply are only increasing. We sell our services to any agricultural or global food brand who is thinking about soil carbon. Climate change is still here.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

JUNE 1, 2023

They sell the wild and cultivated seaweed dried, and use the less delicious, more abundant kinds to fertilize the saltwater farm they’re reviving nearby. Others want to use kelp to reduce emissions by replacing carbon-intensive materials like soy, fertilizers, plastic, and petroleum with seaweed-derived versions.

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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. billion to hundreds of agriculture organizations, corporations, universities, and nonprofits for climate-smart projects.

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DTN

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

It provides incentives for the agriculture sector to increase sustainable farming practices; it is poised to reduce biofuel and ethanol production costs while increasing profit margins; and helps lower greenhouse gas emissions across multiple sectors. A third party, such as a grain marketer can help source sustainable grains.

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DTN

MAY 22, 2024

The writers, designers, and content creators on the Progressive Farmer editorial team received 19 awards at the 2024 North American Agriculture Journalists competition (NAAJ). The NAAJ competition judges content produced by ag media, such as DTN, plus agriculture coverage from daily newspapers and general audience media.

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DTN

MAY 17, 2024

The writers, designers, and content creators on the DTN Progressive Farmer editorial team received 19 awards at the 2024 North American Agriculture Journalists competition (NAAJ). The ag newsroom has refocused its coverage on high interest, high value topics in agriculture, food production and rural issues.

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NASDA

JANUARY 16, 2025

Letter Dear Chairman Boozman and Ranking Member Klobuchar: We write in support of Brooke Leslie Rollins nomination to be the 33rd Secretary of Agriculture. Department of Agriculture (USDA). Rollins has been engaged in American agriculture since an early age, baling hay and raising livestock in Glen Rose, Texas.

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Agwired

MARCH 25, 2025

More than 100 agricultural and biofuels organizations sent comments in a letter to USTR seeking an exemption for agricultural exports from both newly proposed fees on Chinese vessels and graduated sourcing requirements for U.S. agriculture competitive in the global market. These are not idle concerns.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 31, 2024

The $160 million that the company’s backers, primarily US venture capitalists and private equity funds, have spent on its operations represents the largest foreign investment in agriculture in the history of the Peruvian Amazon. If not, he said, settlers will keep clearing primary forest and abandoning the spent land a few years later.

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Civil Eats

AUGUST 19, 2024

All of it coalesces into an image of a guy with rural roots and deep ties to agriculture. Farm groups across the political spectrum, including those that work to shrink agriculture’s carbon footprint, have, too. The crops grown to feed those livestock, mostly corn and soybeans, are especially fertilizer intensive.

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