National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Last week’s post highlighted the stories of farmers who have used practices from the Climate-Smart Agriculture and Forestry practice list to build climate resilience and mitigation solutions. This week’s post adds stories created and gathered by National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC) members around the country.

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Pasture Crop Farming Farming 90

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. At the same time, they decrease greenhouse gas emissions.

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Ranching Greenhouse Crop Pasture 72

Civil Eats

AUGUST 29, 2023

He used a conventional approach: He diligently mowed his animals’ pastures to control weeds, added lime to make the soil less acidic, and applied fertilizer to boost productivity. million tons of offsets purchased by Microsoft in fiscal year 2021–22, for example, were tied to forestry initiatives. (A

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Marketing Harvester Harvesting Harvest 89

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. B000CPL24).

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Crop Rotation Forage Pasture Crop 83

Agritecture Blog

MAY 12, 2023

The areas most affected by deforestation tend to be in the Amazonian foothills, where the agricultural frontier is increasingly encroaching the jungle. Data from Global Forest Watch indicate that the municipality of San José del Fragua alone lost 1,433 acres of forest between 2020 and 2021. Image by Antonio Paz.

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Farming Farming Seeding Family Farming 52

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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Ruralism Food Farming Farming 104

Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Department of Agriculture denied Albert Johnson Sr.’s In an age of mechanized and industrialized agriculture, they face many challenges in operating a sustainable cattle farm—and there’s federal assistance to help with that. sits on a feed pail in the pasture of his family farm near Lexington, Mississippi, on Nov.

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Cattle Family Farming Farming Farming 92