Agriculture Ecology Plowing 
The Equation
MAY 11, 2023
This disaster should serve as a sobering reminder that policymakers and the agriculture industry need to do more to adapt to our changing climate. Although most people don’t notice it, erosion and soil degradation caused by industrial agriculture are already a problem in farming regions across the country. A new Dust Bowl?
Daily Yonder
NOVEMBER 8, 2024
Farmers in many parts of the world, particularly smallholder, Indigenous, and family farmers, are increasingly seeing their agriculture practices turn against them. They also embraced crop diversity by adopting traditional crops, including hardier, more nutritious varieties that had been orphaned by modern agriculture demands.
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ATTRA
DECEMBER 26, 2023
By Lee Rinehart, NCAT Agriculture Specialist I’m sure farmers have been using living mulches for ages. He would let the cover crop grow and overwinter and then plow down the following spring for green manure. Instead, I can terminate my winter cover and lightly plow it in this spring, put out my transplants, and undersow white clover.
CalCAN
APRIL 6, 2023
This blog originally appeared here on the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC) website, and is re-posted here with permission. CalCAN is a member of NSAC and played a part in developing the original version of the Agriculture Resilience Act. Farmers across the country are experiencing climate impacts as a crisis.
Modern Farmer
SEPTEMBER 15, 2023
Goldfarb spoke with Modern Farmer about his new book, how roads have impacted animals and agriculture and where we might go from here. Your book talks a lot about “road ecology.” A lot of road ecology is about why roadkill happens and what its effects on populations are and how to prevent it. What is that? Author Ben Goldfarb.
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”?
National Young Farmers Coalition
OCTOBER 11, 2023
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