ATTRA

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

By Mike Morris, NCAT Agriculture Specialist “When I was in college, I was taught that you fed hay and grain, and the pasture was just something you put the animals out on to look pretty, or just to get a little bit of supplement. Department of Agriculture. I had to really change the way that I think to make that switch.

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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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DTN

AUGUST 1, 2023

DTN ® , continues to deliver market-leading data and intelligence to the agriculture sector with the introduction of EcoField data specifically engineered to support the rapidly growing sustainable agriculture space. The initial data set offers an instant view into field-level sustainable agriculture practices and inputs across 35 U.S.

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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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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

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

She and Rafkin had a goal of adding diversity and value to her family’s farm through organic agriculture, but they found few organic farmers in the area at the time and none that were implementing agroforestry. They ate grains that couldn’t be sold.” It allows us to be creative again, which I think we’ve lost in agriculture,” she says.

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Trimble Agriculture

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

farm income is on the decline, partly due to an anticipated drop in total cash receipts for key agricultural commodities. In this article, we dive deeper into the forecasted decline in agricultural commodity cash receipts and the factors involved so you can be more informed when it comes to your operation’s financial future.

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ATTRA

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Researchers in New Zealand have been exploring the flammability of various crop plants as a means of mitigating fire hazards on agricultural lands. Their findings suggest that crops with low flammability could be strategically planted to reduce wildfire risk in agricultural landscapes.

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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. There isn’t a total consensus on what “regenerative agriculture” is, though, and it can sometimes include standards such as animal welfare and supporting workers.

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Farming Secrets

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Transplanting into clover Pasture cropped oats sown into native pasture – Colin Seis Winnona NSW Dust Storm in SA 2009 thousands of years of topsoil up up and away. So, if it can’t be measured it does not exist! Avoid chemical fertilisers as plants and microbes build soils chemicals destroy soils over time.

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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. E340C), and bundles start with a B (ex.

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Modern Farmer

OCTOBER 11, 2023

The 10-acre farm outside Hamilton, Montana is run by Noah Jackson and Mary Bricker, who dedicate four irrigated acres of pasture to their laying hens. It displays the SweetRoot Farm logo—a beet sticking out of a row of dirt—and the text “Pastured eggs. Organic, GMO-free feed and whole grains, moved to fresh pasture regularly.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 23, 2024

. “Dog food” is regulated loosely compared to human fare, allowing even meat deemed unfit for human consumption due to things such as disease and contamination and moldy grains , a recipe for endless pet food recalls. Farm Hounds Family farms often struggle to stay profitable as agriculture becomes more concentrated.

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Farmbrite

JULY 10, 2023

There are benefits to doing so - grass-fed beef is leaner and healthier than conventional grain-fed beef, and consumers are increasingly aware of these benefits. But the process of converting your farm from grain-finished beef to grass-finished beef can be daunting. Here are a few tips that will help make the transition easier: 1.

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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. Controlled Environment Agriculture A CEA farm growing tomatoes.

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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. Farmers across the country are experiencing climate impacts as a crisis.

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Civil Eats

OCTOBER 12, 2023

And as their negotiations set the stage for the next five years of American agriculture, it can feel to farmers like our future is in their hands. Each year the number exceeds the year prior, yet there is little talk or action on mitigation and prevention. Meanwhile, it may be months before lawmakers can agree on a new farm bill.

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UnderstandingAg

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

Or have they studied the nutritional profile of regeneratively produced grass fed and pasture raised meats? If we are producing grass-fed beef, then we do not need grains or other feedstuffs? Grass-based agriculture supports substantially more ecosystem benefits. Pasture and range conditions are significantly better.

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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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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. He’s one of the only people I know who has more agriculture books in his house than I do. Let me introduce you to my mentors, the folks I would pay to go see and hear. Much of what I know, I learned from him.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

IRA dollars function as a supplemental pool of funding for four conservation programs: the Conservation Stewardship Program (CSP), the Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP), the Agricultural Conservation Easement Program (ACEP), and the Regional Conservation Partnership Program (RCPP.) Appendix Table 1.

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Trimble Agriculture

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Pasture Prices Pasture and ranch land values increased $110 per acre to an average of $1,760. Highly productive soil, nearby grain highways, or contiguous land are all factors that may push farmland prices up. The Farm Bill , a source of many agriculture policies in the U.S., That is an 8.1 That is a 6.7

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Civil Eats

AUGUST 16, 2023

The Regenerative Agriculture Alliance (RAA), the nonprofit he founded and now sits on the board of, also plays a key, ongoing role in developing the infrastructure behind the network and has plans to scale it up to extend across the upper portion of the corn belt. ” But the grand vision doesn’t end there. says Christofore.

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RR2CS

APRIL 18, 2022

Rod and Beth Vergouwen’s agricultural roots in Strathmore stem back to the early 1900s when Beth’s great-grandfather emigrated from Illinois with the vision to farm and ranch in southern Alberta. Today, Rod and family raise Angus cattle and a flock of Katahdin sheep on open native and annual forage pastures.

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RR2CS

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Based on my experience working with Rural Routes to Climate Solutions over the last six years, agriculture has enough humility and modesty when it comes to belief in one’s self. Bla-Kar grows mainly soybeans and corn with some livestock integration and South Glanton is a mixed grain and cattle operation. Not exactly.

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The Lunatic Farmer

APRIL 23, 2021

of Agriculture Thomas Vilsack and most congressmen and senators that said in part: "We are writing to share with you our concern that the integrity of the National Organic Standards has eroded significantly over the years. The pasture compliance which large organic livestock producers circumvent openly and aggressively. Grain fraud.

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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

s largest agricultural producers—was classified as being in “ exceptional drought. ” billion in losses and lowering the agricultural GDP in the state to a mere.8 Andina has several vegetarian main courses on the menu, and has always offered quinoa, a Peruvian mainstay grain, as part of several dishes. Photo courtesy of Andina.

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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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Civil Eats

MAY 7, 2024

Keep in mind that although some stores are full of highly processed junk foods, pretty much all of them tend to have those staple whole grains, legumes, frozen vegetables, and fruits. When values conflict—for example, when a healthy, organic food is packaged in plastic—in general, put more weight on agricultural practices than on packaging.

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UnderstandingAg

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

This results in significantly higher antioxidants in grass-fed meats compared to grain-fed meats. Soils in diverse pastures had significantly higher soil organic matter, total exchange capacity, zinc, iron, phosphorus and potassium when compared to soils in conventional corn fields.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 21, 2023

In the release, the WFO claimed cultivated livestock products “are supported by marketing campaigns that enhance the myth of greater sustainability compared to agriculture” and asserted that “there is no reliable evidence to compare cell-based food to farmer-produced one.” “For

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 30, 2024

In the 90-minute ritual, she distributes buckets of grain and hay for the cows’ breakfast, scrapes away animal feces, fills the water trough bucket by bucket, milks the dairy cows, feeds the barnyard cats and new kittens, and shepherds sometimes recalcitrant cows out to pasture. Photography courtesy of Charlotte Maffie.

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UnderstandingAg

OCTOBER 29, 2023

When I began studying ornamental horticulture and landscape design over 25 years ago, regenerative agriculture was just a twinkle in Gabe Brown’s eye and a glimpse of the future in the eyes of Allen Williams’, Ph.D. We can start by doing the same things we do in a row-crop or small-grain field.

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Farmbrite

JANUARY 18, 2024

Thirty-five percent of new farms recorded in 1992 were not in existence in 1997 -- a failure rate largely attributed to smaller farms starting and going out of business, according to data collected by the Economic Research Service of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). However, there is hope.

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Wisconsin Farmers Union

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

For this one, the church partnered with the Hay River Farmer-Led Watershed Council to discuss water quality and agriculture locally. Bartz noted “small grains are the ace in the hole for building our soil health.” These events focus on bringing the community together to talk about big ideas or issues of community importance.

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Sustainable Food Trust

JULY 26, 2023

2] Rangeland ruminants cycle otherwise inaccessible nutrition into the human food web and, worldwide, many are in the hands of third-agriculture local agrarians operating outside commodified market routes. Organic, Pasture-Fed Beef and Lamb ’ play pretty well in agribusiness boardrooms.[3] over that period).[2]

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Cropaia

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Incorporating organic amendments into soil can improve molybdenum availability and promote sustainable nutrient management practices in agriculture. Additionally, organic matter enhances soil structure and microbial activity, which can influence molybdenum availability and cycling in soil ecosystems.

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