National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

The world is increasingly recognizing the value of sustainable food systems, and organic agriculture plays a vital role in this movement. Organic practices enhance soil health and biodiversity, foster resource regeneration, and help mitigate and build resilience to climate change. For the FY25 budget, NIFA is suggested a $3.5

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

MARCH 21, 2025

Consequently, the federal crop insurance program (FCIP) is the costliest part of agriculture production spending , as taxpayers subsidize the program to the tune of billions of dollars each year. The 2022 Census of Agriculture revealed that 369,393 farm operations had crop insurance, covering a total of 298 million acres.

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Sustainable Food Trust

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

These agricultural practices have developed in tandem with government and market incentivisation that promote increasingly processed diets high in sugar, fat and processed meat. It also helps regulate erosion, influences climate through greenhouse gas exchange and sustains human societies by enabling food and livestock production.

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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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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Plastic may have made farm life easier, but it’s also caused the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) to raise alarm bells about its impact on the environment. million tons of agricultural plastic is used annually. Cleanfarms is a Canadian stewardship organization that recycles agricultural plastic.

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Food Tank

MARCH 21, 2025

The 2021 Tokyo Nutrition for Growth (N4G) Summit underscored the interlinkages between nutrition, agriculture and climate resilience. For instance, the study in Switzerland discovered that the true cost of bread could be much lower if it was made with organic, whole grain wheat rather than refined grain. According to the U.N.

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DTN

JUNE 14, 2023

But now, people outside the industry are paying attention to how crops are grown, as an increasing number of food companies, grain buyers, and consumers seek ingredients grown using sustainable practices. And with increased attention on agricultural practices are increased market opportunities for agribusinesses and grain growers.

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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. agricultural landscape and the policies that are most closely aligned with incentivizing its creation. However, NSAC covers the land access issue elsewhere.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Civil Eats has long covered the intersection of food, agriculture, and the climate crisis, but the droughts, floods, wildfires, and weather extremes—as well as the warnings from scientists—have grown ever more dire. An Ancient Grain Made New Again: How Sorghum Could Help U.S. agriculture. farm landscape. Researchers Explain How.

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Civil Eats

APRIL 3, 2024

The issue most cited across critiques was simple: When urban farms were separated from community gardens in the study, the higher rate of greenhouse gas emissions reported essentially disappeared. Overall, they found greenhouse gas emissions were six times higher at the urban sites—and that’s the conclusion the study led with.

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 8, 2024

For three years, Nathanael Gonzales-Siemens drove up California’s coast for 14 hours every month for a routine task: milling his grain into flour. “I We’ve got 150 acres of grain.” He found this disconcerting, not only for himself but the future of small-scale grain farming in California, once known for its golden hills of grain.

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Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

million acres of corn and 10 million acres of soybeans, according to the USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service Information. That trend prompted some Iowans to look at stores and resources closer to home—to local growers, local meat lockers, local dairies and even local greenhouses. In 2022, Iowa farmers harvested 12.4

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DTN

JULY 24, 2023

As discussions around sustainably grown grain become more prominent, it raises the question, “What qualifies it as sustainably grown?” It’s a question that has multiple answers since the current sustainable grain market is segmented, with multiple programs initiating their own certification requirements. Consider this scenario.

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Upon leaving her family farm to study agriculture at Stanford, she took up a work-study program investigating the economic viability of grass-fed beef. “It And for grass-fed and finished cows specifically, a longer lifespan equates to more total methane, a powerful greenhouse gas, released into the atmosphere.

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Farming Secrets

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

What is the main contributor to the greenhouse gas effect? What would you think if I said water vapor contributes to up to 80 % of the Greenhouse gas effect and Carbon Dioxide only 11 %?How How would you approach reducing global warming if you took the perspective that Greenhouse gases are too much of a good thing in the wrong place?

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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. Farming is also an important contributor to greenhouse gas emissions.

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ATTRA

JUNE 25, 2024

AgMission , a global initiative co-founded by the Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research (FFAR) and the World Farmers’ Organisation (WFO) to unlock agriculture’s potential to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, has partnered with PepsiCo to award three grants to researchers in Australia, Mexico and Canada, for a total combined $6.7

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

The experience led him to start learning about regenerative agriculture and the benefits raising chickens could have for the soil fertility and sustainability of his nine acres. Industrial farming contributes around 11 percent of total US greenhouse gas emissions, not including the transportation of the food.

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Food Tank

OCTOBER 11, 2023

According to a study published in the Journal of Cleaner Production and Beverages , the production of alcoholic beverages can contribute to greenhouse gas emissions, land degradation, and water depletion. Boochcraft partners with The Ecology Center for the advancement of regenerative agriculture.

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Farmbrite

MARCH 2, 2023

Agriculture is one of the most important industries in the world. While farming may be your first thought when it comes to agricultural jobs, there are actually hundreds of different specialties and niches within the industry, from scientists to economists and more. It provides us with food, clothing and shelter.

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Agritecture Blog

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Editor’s Note: One main draw of Controlled Environment Agriculture, or CEA, is the ability to grow produce closer to urban centers where it will be consumed, thus shortening the supply chain for inhabitants of cities globally. Greenhouses and even hoop houses have long been considered part of the CEA landscape. Credit: iStock.

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Agritecture Blog

MARCH 3, 2023

It doesn’t take a whole lot of rain to make a good yield for the sorghum crop,” said Rendel, who plants about 1,000 acres of grain sorghum each year on his 5,000-acre farm. While he did lose some of his grain sorghum, or milo, to the drought, the loss was minimal compared to corn. But there was one crop that suffered less. “It

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

After years of philanthropic support for fisheries, water, and education, members of his generation (along with some of their elders) are not only accelerating that environmental focus, they’re applying it to food and agriculture in new ways. He also passed on a significant stake in Walmart, the world’s largest retailer, with $611.3

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Civil Eats

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Until a few years ago, Songbird Farm in Unity, Maine, grew wheat, rye, oats, and corn, as well as an array of vegetables in three high tunnel greenhouses, and supported a community-supported agriculture (CSA) program for over 100 customers. From an agriculture perspective, we want the soil to come out the other side usable and healthy.

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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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Agritecture Blog

MAY 3, 2023

Written by: Isabelle Dom Across the world of ESG investing, SDG impact, and climate change mitigation, a consistent omission has been bothering us at Agritecture: few events - if any - cover the full breadth of agriculture-related solutions. The conventional meat industry is one of the leading sources of greenhouse gas emissions.

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 15, 2024

Exactly how far inland the salt encroaches will depend partially on how effective humans are at reducing greenhouse gas emissions, as rising temperatures and melting ice sheets are the main contributors to the ocean’s expansions. Chris Miller in the greenhouse.

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Wisconsin Farmers Union

APRIL 8, 2024

Secretary of Agriculture, Tom Vilsack said on Tuesday, March 26 at Great River Milling in Fountain City. “It's It's an opportunity to create a different narrative about American agriculture: it's innovative and committed to sustainability." Secretary of Agriculture, Tom Vilsack.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 8, 2023

Agriculture sucks a whopping 80 percent of the Colorado River ’s water every year. Alfalfa alone siphons off more than a third of that agricultural water usage. Hydroponic fodder systems sow soaked grains, such as wheat or rye, into trays that are automatically watered. But it comes at a great cost to the region’s water supply.

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Food Tank

APRIL 15, 2024

ÄIO , Estonia ÄIO uses waste streams from the food, agriculture, and wood industries to produce fat substitutes for food and cosmetics. pounds of greenhouse gas, and saves 102 gallons of water. Their products serve as sustainable alternatives to butter, oil, nutritional yeast, and more.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 1, 2024

It’s no secret that the agricultural industry is facing multiple converging challenges including an urgently looming generational shift. According to the 2022 USDA Census of Agriculture , the average age of a farmer is 58, with organic farmers coming in slightly younger at 52. Only 8 percent of the United States’ 3.3

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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Furthermore, Scully and her colleagues write, “We choose to call these ‘unnatural disasters’ because they are driven by the increase in greenhouse gases generated by human activities. Moreover, if greenhouse gases are not reduced, extreme weather will continue to cause crop loss, and inflation could rise as much as 3.3

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Agwired

APRIL 10, 2024

Department of Agriculture published the second edition of Quantifying Greenhouse Gas Fluxes in Agriculture and Forestry: Methods for Entity Scale Inventory. The report provides farmers, ranchers, and forest landowners with the methods and tools needed to assess the greenhouse gas (GHG) footprint of their operations.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

JUNE 7, 2024

Department of Agriculture (USDA), the apple ranks as America’s favorite fruit. Globally, according to a 2022 United Nations report, food loss and waste account for 7 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions. Share this Consider the apple. diet, and economy. According to the U.S. Last year, the United States produced some 4.36

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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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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 15, 2024

Small footprint, big potential “Microgreens” is a term used to describe the tender, edible seedlings of various herbs, vegetables and grains typically seeded in shallow, soil-filled trays, grown under natural or artificial light, then harvested within two weeks of germination. Photography submitted by Don DiLillo, Finest Foods.

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Modern Farmer

APRIL 3, 2024

Fighting climate change Greenhouse gas emissions, which result from high levels of atmospheric carbon, are a critical cause of climate change. Group effort Carbon Sponge, formed to explore regenerative agriculture in urban gardening, incorporates art, scientific research, data collection and agriculture.

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