National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

OCTOBER 6, 2023

In August 2022, Congress passed the historic Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), a landmark piece of legislation that provided nearly $20 billion dollars to the United States Department of Agriculture for various programs capable of reducing greenhouse gasses across our food and farm system, including CSP. E340C), and bundles start with a B (ex.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Paraquat, the Deadliest Chemical in US Agriculture, Goes on Trial Amid lawsuits filed by thousands of farmers linking the herbicide to Parkinson’s disease, the EPA is reconsidering its analysis of paraquat’s risks. Here are some of our best farming and farm bill reporting this year. Farm Credit Can Make or Break Farms. We Explain Why.

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The Equation

MAY 15, 2023

And the agriculture industry, which uses an outsize amount of California’s water and has literally changed the state’s landscape, needs to change and adapt, fast. Agriculture is the largest user of water in the western states. What can farmers do to avoid weather “whiplash”?

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

MARCH 27, 2024

Fescue toxicity is the most devastating livestock disorder east of the Mississippi,” said Craig Roberts, a forage specialist at the University of Missouri (MU) Extension and an expert on fescue. To understand the fescue-native debate requires an understanding of the ecological tradeoff between warm- and cool-season grasses. “It

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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

That’s when Oyster Oyster draws heavily from its pantry of foraged wild plants and ingredients preserved from nearby climate-friendly farms. At right: roasted asparagus with locally foraged ramps, crispy potato, radish and a Virginia peanut broth infused with Thai basil oil. agriculture. It’s just cellared roots and some kales.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 29, 2023

The agriculture students will be growing and raising specialty crops and animals for us, and culinary students will get the chance to get their hands in the dirt to learn what it takes to grow a crop,” says chef-instructor and Top Chef alum Robin Leventhal. The federal government is trying to help spur growth in these types of programs, too.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

AUGUST 28, 2024

Editor’s Note: This is the fourth post in a multi-part blog series analyzing the Farm Food and National Security Act of 2024 (FFNSA), which was reported out of the House Agriculture Committee on Friday, May 24. public, across party lines, is concerned about the impacts of climate change on agriculture and food production.

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Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Tony Prendergast’s XK Bar Ranch sits slightly south of Crawford, Colorado, near the Smith Fork of the North Fork of the Gunnison River on the southern edge of the agriculturally rich North Fork Valley. Regenerative agriculture is Prendergast’s thing. The Black Canyon of the Gunnison lies to the southwest. He is a former U.S.

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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. For example, reducing tillage and maintaining in-field residues can reduce the losses of carbon dioxide and may reduce nitrous oxide emissions.

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Sustainable Food Trust

AUGUST 6, 2024

He believes that there is much to be learnt from how Wales was once farmed and that by using the right animals in the right places, increasing tree cover and farming in harmony with nature, agriculture can be an effective, culturally sensitive and socially just means of managing and restoring the Welsh landscape.

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Agwired

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

USDA announced funding provided by the Inflation Reduction Act for the Agricultural Conservation Easement Program (ACEP) for fiscal year 2025. NRCS accepts applications year-round for ACEP Agricultural Land Easements (ACEP-ALE) and Wetland Reserve Easements (ACEP-WRE). 4, 2024, or Dec. Rivulis Pte.

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RR2CS

MARCH 8, 2022

Often, in conventional agriculture, muskeg areas and sloughs are drained and ploughed. They also want to create access for community members to grow their own food and forage for wild foods. RR2CS: As a woman of colour, what is your take on the Regenerative Agriculture movement?

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Caff

JUNE 29, 2021

acres on two pieces of leased land using no-till agro-ecological practices including drip irrigation, cover crops and lots of mulch to conserve water and build healthy soil. So many farmers are dealing with this issue that storage tanks may not even be available, like the toilet paper scenario in COVID.” She farms 1.5

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Civil Eats

MAY 15, 2024

Waterfowl—ducks, geese, and swans—are the primary host of the viruses, and large animal agriculture facilities are often found in close proximity to their remaining wetland habitats. Geological Survey’s Western Ecological Research Center. “The Department of Agriculture (USDA). poultry production.

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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Irrigated crops receive higher payouts than dryland crops, while farmers often risk their coverage to engage in some of the most ecologically sound practices. And while the practices vary regionally, determined by approved local experts, they tend to favor commodity row agriculture. Department of Agriculture.

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 28, 2025

Researchers, however, say the effects of prairie dogs on livestock forage are mixed. Across years, enhanced forage quality may help to offset reductions in forage quantity for agricultural producers, a study published in 2019 by Rangeland Ecology and Management reported.

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 19, 2024

Not all farmland is created equal,” says Jesse Womack, a conservation policy specialist with the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC). Created by Congress in 1985, the CRP asks agricultural producers to voluntarily take environmentally sensitive land out of active production and conserve it. It is always overdrawn.”

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RR2CS

APRIL 18, 2022

Rod and Beth Vergouwen’s agricultural roots in Strathmore stem back to the early 1900s when Beth’s great-grandfather emigrated from Illinois with the vision to farm and ranch in southern Alberta. Today, Rod and family raise Angus cattle and a flock of Katahdin sheep on open native and annual forage pastures.

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ATTRA

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

The project aimed to highlight distinct and diverse farms of Virginia’s agricultural community through a narrative inquiry framework. This project material is based upon work that is funded and supported by the National Institute of Food and Agriculture, U.S. Department of Agriculture. In this video, Brent shares who (i.e.,

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RR2CS

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Date: Wednesday, December 7th, 2022 at 1:00PM Presenter: Dr. Jillian Bainard, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada Cost: FREE Producers rely on grazing native, tame perennial pastures or stockpiled feed to typically feed their livestock. Jillian Bainard of Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 5, 2023

At Civil Eats, we immerse ourselves in food and agriculture books throughout the year to deepen our knowledge, stay up to date, and produce robust coverage of the books making an impact in the food and ag space. Our Staff Reporter Grey Moran has a delightful article about foraging , published in Grist, included in the book.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

MAY 10, 2024

On May 1, 2024 – after months of stalled farm bill negotiations on both sides of Capitol Hill – Senate Agriculture Committee Chairwoman Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) released a detailed section-by-section summary of her farm bill proposal. NSAC will reserve final assessment until the full legislative text becomes available.

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Civil Eats

JUNE 20, 2024

—Matthew Wheeland Countering Dispossession, Reclaiming Land: A Social Movement Ethnography By David Gilbert Along the slopes of a volcano in Indonesia, a group of Minangkabau Indigenous agricultural workers began quietly reclaiming their land in 1993, growing cinnamon trees, chilies, eggplants, and other foods on the edges of plantations.

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

but these fish are very vulnerable to exploitation and they could definitely be locally depleted or eliminated,” said forage fish expert Ellen Pikitch, the executive director of the Institute for Ocean Conservation Science at Stony Brook University in New York. The jewel of an estuary that is the Chesapeake Bay dies by 1,000 cuts.

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Such shocks to the food system are evidence of some of the inherent weaknesses of an industrialized and highly concentrated agriculture sector. To some people , such concentration is an asset, proof of the impressive productivity of modern agriculture. My small flock represents one additional node in the food production network.

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 28, 2025

Department of Agriculture (USDA), has worked to help dairy farmers like Wagner transfer their skills, and potentially their businesses, to a new generation. Most land-grant agriculture programs focus on confinement systems, given their prevalence in the industry, so the DGA is one of the few sources that shares pasture-raised dairy skills.

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 23, 2024

On a crisp weekend this past fall, 30 state legislators from across the nation descended on TomKat Ranch , an 1,800-acre ranch focused on regenerative agriculture in Pescadero, California, an hour south of San Francisco. Attendees at the TomKat Ranch tour organized by the State Innovation Exchange (SiX).

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

according to eHistory’s Invasion of America project—has hugely impacted their abilities to hunt, fish, forage, and farm. A 2019 ScienceDirect study showed that Native-managed lands foster as much or more biodiversity than protected areas, which could be key in mitigating the negative impact of extractive agriculture.

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