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Precision Ag News 4/10

Agwired

Department of Agriculture published the second edition of Quantifying Greenhouse Gas Fluxes in Agriculture and Forestry: Methods for Entity Scale Inventory. The event attracted a diverse audience interested in the future of agriculture and the potential of genome editing technologies.

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Why Are Scope 3 Emissions a Key Concern for Food Manufacturers?

AGRIVI

Anticipated to impact over 50,000 companies , the new regulation will particularly affect the food and beverage industry , which heavily relies on agriculture — an industry known to be a major source of GHG emissions. Scope 1, 2, and 3 E missions – Why the Latter Matter to Food and Beverage Industry ?

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Ask a Scientist: Stopping Big Ag from Hijacking US Farm and Food Policy

The Equation

A month later, more than 100 advocacy and labor organizations sent a letter to the leaders of both the House and Senate agriculture committees recommending nearly three dozen provisions (called “marker bills”) for the farm bill that would make the US food and agriculture system more sustainable, resilient, and fair. million to Rep.

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The USDA Plan to Better Measure Agriculture’s Impact on the Climate Crisis

Civil Eats

Department of Agriculture (USDA) has funneled billions in tax dollars toward farming that it deems climate-smart. It is important that we embrace the notion of climate-smart agriculture and forestry, but to do that, we’ve got to get the science and the innovation right. But what exactly that means is widely disputed.

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From Commodification to Conservation: Restoring Agrobiodiversity through Seed Breeding – Part I: 

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

USDA distributed seeds to farmers for free, encouraging growers to save and share seed and to experiment with any crop that could become economically important to US agriculture. This would further enable farmers to drastically cut pesticide use and increase habitat availability for a wide range of species.

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