UnderstandingAg

APRIL 3, 2025

By: Kyle Richardville, Understanding Ag, LLC About the Understanding series Agriculture isnt rocket science. Farming and ranching involve the fields of biology, ecology, chemistry, botany, physics, geology, meteorology, politics, economics, psychology and mechanics, just to name a few. Its much more complex than that.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JULY 14, 2023

agriculture currently faces some steep challenges. Climate change and biodiversity loss represent existential threats to the agricultural status quo. However, as with all social-ecological systems , change in any part of the system necessarily requires or causes change in other parts of the system.

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Modern Farmer

JUNE 24, 2024

Greenhorns – Based in Maine but running nationally, this organization works to reform the agriculture industry with a focus on regenerative ranching, ecological restoration and food justice. Its annual conference brings farmers from across the country together.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 24, 2023

Since the resurgence of regenerative agriculture, farming has never been sexier. But what does regenerative agriculture mean? It’s official: Regenerative agriculture has been hijacked. This distinction,” says Newton, “raises interesting implications about how you define regenerative agriculture.”

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UnderstandingAg

MARCH 10, 2025

By: Kyle Richardville, Understanding Ag, LLC About the Understanding series Agriculture isnt rocket science. Farming and ranching involve the fields of biology, ecology, chemistry, botany, physics, geology, meteorology, politics, economics, psychology and mechanics, just to name a few. Its much more complex than that.

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Food Tank

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

We need to keep repeating this: Food and agriculture systems have to be central to any meaningful discussions of solving the climate crisis. 25 For our morning Summit, conversations presented by Food Tank and American Farmland Trust will center around the theme “ Climate Resilience through Agriculture.” Thursday, Sept.

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UnderstandingAg

MAY 22, 2023

Education and understanding form a critical foundation for the implementation of the soil health principles and adaptive grazing rules to drive the ecosystem processes and ensure long-term ecological advancement on farms and ranches. Proverb: “ If you give a man a fish, you feed him for a day.

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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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Caff

JUNE 11, 2024

We believe farmers of color, and other historically oppressed people, should have the opportunity to create and participate in a food and agriculture system that aligns with their needs, values, identities, knowledge systems, and communities. To learn more about CAFF, our history, and our core values, visit caff.org/about.

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 9, 2024

This much-anticipated daylong event, which aims to both promote and protect Oaxaca’s agricultural richness, takes place every year in late November or early December. This year, the fair opened its doors on Saturday, December 2, in the community of San Pablo de Mitla, located about an hour’s drive east of the capital, Oaxaca City.

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UnderstandingAg

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

By Kyle Richardville Understanding Ag, LLC About the Understanding series Agriculture isnt rocket science. Farming and ranching involve the fields of biology, ecology, chemistry, botany, physics, geology, meteorology, politics, economics, psychology and mechanics, just to name a few. Its much more complex than that.

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ATTRA

DECEMBER 13, 2023

For centuries , draft animals were the premier power source for agriculture. Although tractors eventually usurped draft animals on most farms, ranches, and forests, some teamsters have kept the traditions alive.

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The Lunatic Farmer

JANUARY 15, 2024

Yeomans, Bill Mollison, and other iconic eco-experts, he is probably the foremost agriculture landscape designer in the world. His 10 Layers of Permanence build on the work of Yeomans; you will never see your farm, ranch, or homestead the same way once you’ve encountered his thinking. Much of what I know, I learned from him.

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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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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Photo credit: USDA EDITOR’S NOTE: On October 9, 2024, NSAC released Stewarding Success: CSP Under the 2018 Farm Bill , a comprehensive analysis of the Conservation Stewardship Program (CSP) over the course of the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018 (2018 Farm Bill). What is the Conservation Stewardship Program? billion for CSP.

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Caff

JANUARY 20, 2022

With community-scaled ingenuity at heart, the winners of this year’s Small Farm Innovation Challenge offer solutions for local agriculture. This year’s DIY award went to McGruder Ranch for their “No-dig Removable End Post”, a handheld mechanical post-driver making the always arduous task of fence-building easier.

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National Young Farmers Coalition

OCTOBER 11, 2023

However, they often face barriers to accessing federal conservation programs, because their farms and ranches tend to be small. Young farmers are on the frontlines of the climate crisis and need support to continue implementing solutions on their farms.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

This year’s announcement for Classic CIG included three priority areas: climate-smart agriculture with two subcategories; Combating Invasive Species; Conservation in Urban Agriculture Systems. Energy Conservation : Agricultural producers typically rely on a range of energy sources. They use energy directly (e.g.,

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Caff

JANUARY 27, 2021

Every year, we honor individuals, farms and local businesses making a positive impact on our food and agricultural communities throughout California. In an effort to heal himself and re-connect with his agricultural roots Mr. Scott began gardening.

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Civil Eats

AUGUST 29, 2023

Department of Agriculture’s COMET-Farm tool , which estimates the effects of agricultural practices on greenhouse gasses, projects that adding legume cover crops to annual crop fields sequesters about a ton of CO2 per acre per year, for instance. agriculture. Verification is another challenge.

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Caff

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

We believe farmers of color, and other historically oppressed people, should have the opportunity to create and participate in a food and agriculture system that aligns with their needs, values, identities, knowledge systems, and communities. To learn more about CAFF, our history, and our core values, visit [link].

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Agritecture Blog

MAY 12, 2023

Local residents have been working to restore and conserve the deforested land through sustainable, ecologically-oriented farming methods. Visitors to the rural area will notice that cattle ranches dominate the landscape, once covered by Amazonian forests. Many people ran out of water, including cattle ranches in the region.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 24, 2024

Contributing authors: Abigail Buta ,and Jessica Levy , and Elena Seeley The momentum to transform food and agriculture systems has never been more urgentor more inspiring. It connects expertise across disciplines to enhance food security, improve distribution, and position Canada as a leader in agricultural innovation.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

MARCH 27, 2024

By the early 20 th century, decades of timber-cutting and overgrazing had left the ranching region in southern states barren, its nutrient-rich native grasses replaced by a motley assortment of plants that made poor forage. I visited Hamilton’s ranch in November 2022, where they run about 45 cows and 150 bison. The southeastern U.S.,

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Contributing authors: Liza Greene , Elena Seeley , and Alessandra Uriarte The food and agriculture movement made incredible strides over the last year—but our work isn’t done yet! These groups are continuing to push for food and agriculture systems that are economically, socially, and environmentally just and equitable.

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 31, 2024

As CEO, one of his first actions was to send an employee on a quest: Find the “most regenerative” ranch, he instructed. Do not bring me a small ranch,” he said. How do you do that and create ecological change, economic value, and social benefit? The September Montana ranch tour and presentation. But they have to be big.

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UnderstandingAg

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

By: Kyle Richardville, Understanding Ag, LLC About the Understanding series Agriculture isnt rocket science. Farming and ranching involve the fields of biology, ecology, chemistry, botany, physics, geology, meteorology, politics, economics, psychology and mechanics, just to name a few. Its much more complex than that.

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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.

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RR2CS

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

By Trina Moyles Tim Wray grew up on his family’s cattle ranch in Irricana, a small town located 50 kilometres northeast of Calgary in southern Alberta. His first parish was located in a small agricultural community, which put him back in touch with his childhood dream. “I

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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. We bought the ranch by forming a land cooperative with three other families and collaborating on different uses of the land,” he said.

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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. Can Point Reyes National Seashore Support Wildlife and Ranching Amid Climate Change? PFAS Shut Maine Farms Down.

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 8, 2024

Two recent studies looked at how birds interact with agricultural lands and how changes in water, heat or aridity can throw off the balance in this delicate equation. Using cameras that had been set up at these ranch water sources across west Texas for another study, Boal and his team began their work, which was later published in BioOne.

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Modern Farmer

OCTOBER 16, 2023

The corn field at Frey Ranch Distillery. Photography courtesy of Frey Ranch. For some, such as Nevada’s Frey Ranch , the sustainability of the spirit is infused in every aspect of their business. But it’s also incredibly important ecologically. What happened to all the oaks? It’s a money-maker for the forestry industry.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

-based Vence , which was acquired by veterinary pharmaceutical giant Merck Animal Health in 2022, has been slowly rolling out a similar system on larger cattle ranches across the West since 2019. Virtual fencing is gaining traction in American agriculture because it can save farmers time and money.

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National Young Farmers Coalition

APRIL 23, 2024

population – know about or pay attention to the Farm Bill, the legislative vehicle for much of the nation’s agricultural and food policies. Agriculture and food are not synonymous, but that’s for another day.) No more funding for specialty crops, urban agriculture, conservation, or the Gus Schumacher Healthy Incentives Program.

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Modern Farmer

JULY 5, 2023

But major expansion of logging in Canada, fire in the United States and livestock ranching in Mexico have drastically reduced safe areas for bats. There is also research going into where to put wind turbines for lower ecological disruption and ways to reduce bat attraction to the turbines, perhaps through sound wave disruption.

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Caff

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

About Shepherdess Our team is composed of next-generation graziers, folks new to agriculture coming from backgrounds traditionally atypical for someone who works with livestock and the land. Although our operations are different, we all care for our animals, families, the land and future of viable agricultural operations all the same.

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