Real Agriculture

JULY 18, 2023

On this episode, we will hear from Brett Halstead with SaskWheat on pending Canadian Grain Commission changes for August 1, and Colin Elgie, with the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture Food and Rural Affairs, on nitrogen loss in. Thanks for tuning in to this “Tuesdays with Lyndsey” edition of RealAg Radio brought to you by Corteva!

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Food Tank

JULY 20, 2024

Ustawi Afrika is working to improve gender equity for rural women and expand sustainable agricultural practices in Kenya. Doreen Irungu founded Ustawi Afrika after watching her mother struggle as a woman in agriculture in a semi-arid, rural area.

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ATTRA

JANUARY 10, 2025

USDA announced that it is awarding $120 million in Rural Energy for America Program (REAP) grants for 516 projects in 39 states, Guam, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. The grants include energy-efficient grain-drying and lighting systems for farms, as well as renewable energy systems to power agricultural businesses. Virgin Islands.

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NASDA

MARCH 3, 2025

Letter Dear Secretary Rollins: The undersigned participants in the Food Industry Codex Coalition (FICC)1 congratulate you on your recent confirmation as Secretary of Agriculture. We urge that Codex remain a core strategic focus and resource priority for the Department as it champions prosperity and fairness for American agriculture.

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DTN

JANUARY 31, 2025

As we begin 2025, grain buyers are preparing for the crop year as they normally do, by looking at a long list of variables that will impact their grain buying efforts. As we begin 2025, grain buyers are preparing for the crop year as they normally do, by looking at a long list of variables that will impact their grain buying efforts.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

APRIL 1, 2025

The bill helps secure our domestic food system by establishing a pilot program within the US Department of Agricultures (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA). The National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition applauds the introduction of the New Producer Economic Security Act.

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Real Agriculture

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

In recent years, many corn growers in Ontario have wrestled with gibberella ear rot in the crop and the high levels of deoxynivalenol (DON) levels it can produce in the grain. It’s made for stressful harvest seasons, especially in 2018 when mycotoxins produced by the gibberella fungus in some fields climbed well above safe feeding.

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Real Agriculture

JANUARY 29, 2024

Tar spot was a little late arriving in Ontario cornfields in 2023, but the leaf disease ramped up post tasseling, and with an extended fall, took a late-season bite out of grain yields in southwestern areas of the province. Growers who sprayed fungicides to defend their crop against disease were rewarded with higher yields, reports.

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NASDA

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

— The National Association of State Departments of Agriculture is excited to announce the hiring of Amelia Iliohan as Associate Director of Events and Member Engagement. Grains Council and American Farm Bureau Federation. Press Release ARLINGTON, Va. territories. territories. To learn more about NASDA, please visit www.nasda.org.

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Flores, who studied kinesiology and outdoor education before becoming a farmer, is one of a small but growing group of fitness professionals dedicated to helping farmers and others in agriculture stay fit and healthy so they can do their work with more ease and less pain. Rural Response Hotline : 1-800-464-0258.

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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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Food Tank

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Over the last several years, agriculture has stormed onto the climate agenda. There is a strong market demand for local products from agroecological farms and producers, including green leafy vegetables, fruits, grains, small livestock, and native seeds. And its about time. These markets are large and important to local producers.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

At night, and on weekends, he’s a serious sourdough bread baker—and an aspiring grain farmer. After looking in vain for an affordable local wheat source, Ellis decided to experiment with dry-farming the grain himself on a small piece of land 45 miles north of San Diego, in rural Valley Center.

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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

In recent years, curbing emissions from agriculture and the broader food system has become a bigger piece of the conference’s programming. And this year, the most influential group in American agriculture has been pointing to big strides made. In response, the American Farm Bureau’s president, Zippy Duvall, attributed the shift to U.S.

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NASDA

DECEMBER 7, 2023

food and agriculture community to ask you to support this important President Export Council (PEC) proposal to bolster American agriculture’s global competitive standing around the world. food and agriculture, eliminate unwarranted non-tariff barriers, and reinforce global food security. agricultural 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. We are rural, urban, and suburban,” she said. We are female; we are male.

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Food Politics

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Farm Action , an organization devoted to stopping corporate agrocultural monopolies and building fair competition in rural America, has issued a short report, Balancing the US Agricuiltural Trade Deficit with Higher Value Food Crops. Exports fell and imports rose for vegetables, fruits, melons, and key food grains. of US farmland.

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Food Tank

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

With up to 70 percent of Zimbabwe’s population surviving on rural economic activitiesmostly rain-fed crop farmingrecurring droughts are devastating to the country. Some NGOs have been working with the private sector to encourage companies to develop products containing small grains, and this has created a demand.

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The Equation

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

The Inflation Reduction Act is directing $20B toward climate-resilient agriculture Reducing heat-trapping carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) emissions through policies that drive renewable energy and clean transportation has well known benefits. It is agriculture’s responsibility to be part of that action.

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NASDA

JANUARY 25, 2024

As the challenges for America’s farmers and ranchers continue to grow, we believe crop insurance as a safety net is only becoming more important to stability in rural America and a secure domestic food supply. USDA and Congress have taken extraordinary ad hoc measures over the past few years to ensure the financial security of rural America.

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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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RR2CS

AUGUST 28, 2023

Will widespread adoption of regenerative agriculture automatically lead to the rejuvenation of rural communities? By Derek Leahy I have been given this amazing opportunity to travel Canada and interview agricultural producers about regenerative agriculture for the Rural Routes to Climate Solutions podcast.

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Daily Yonder

APRIL 3, 2024

It’s also free for students to have a booth at the market and our local high school’s agriculture program interfaces with the farmers market,” Pridgen said. Permaculture is a term for “permanent agriculture”; it’s an example of GLC’s mission to establish environmentally sustainable practices in agriculture.

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ATTRA

DECEMBER 19, 2024

In Maine, five funded projects will support buckwheat processing, grain extrusion, kelp processing, and shelf-stable products from Maine ingredients. Meanwhile, USDA and California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) are awarding $21.5 million for 117 projects, including seven Infrastructure Grants and 110 Equipment Grants.

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RR2CS

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Learn from Expert Speakers: Will Groeneveld , has grain farmed in the Mannville area for 40 years. Since 2018, he has included perennial forages, grain intercrops and summer & winter grazing in an effort to improve both his soil and farm resiliency. Why Attend? Register Now to secure your spot! Register Today.

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Agwired

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Farm Foundation and National 4-H Council recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding with a focus on a deeper collaboration in leadership, education and youth workforce readiness for young people who seek careers in food and agriculture. FS GRAIN plans to upgrade and expand its existing grain elevator in St.

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RR2CS

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Ryan Mason transitions a successful urban farm operation back to his rural roots in Pigeon Lake, Alberta. Through his studies, Ryan participated in a global exchange program in rural Mexico, living and working with a campesino (small farming) community. But Ryan’s roots on the Canadian prairies travel even deeper.

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NASDA

JULY 10, 2023

agriculture community appreciates the administration’s focus on advancing American interests through the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework (IPEF). food and agricultural sector has historically been a net exporter, a situation that has benefited American workers and expanded opportunities. agricultural exports.

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NASDA

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Letter Dear Majority Leader Schumer, Speaker Johnson, Minority Leader McConnell, and Minority Leader Jeffries: The undersigned agricultural organizations are deeply invested in the well-being of our rural and agricultural communities, and we write today to urge you to prioritize and support the swift passage of a bipartisan farm bill this year.

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NASDA

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Given the enormous challenges facing production agriculture – including a farm economy that has taken a downward spiral – it is imperative Congress act before year’s end to strengthen farm policy for America’s farmers. agriculture is projected to be down $55.61 Department of Agriculture (USDA). USDA forecasts the U.S.

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Food Tank

FEBRUARY 17, 2024

But many small farmer associations and alliances for food sovereignty are questioning the implications of this protocol on seeds and rural communities in Africa. You cannot protect or help farmers rights when you are talking about plant breeders’ rights,” Susan Nakacswa, Africa Programme Officer at GRAIN, tells Food Tank.

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Agritecture Blog

OCTOBER 27, 2022

There is great potential for strawberries in rural CEA settings. 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. Credit: iStock.

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NASDA

APRIL 24, 2024

food and agriculture community, we urge your enhanced engagement on trade policies to bolster our global competitive standing around the world. agriculture is foundational to the American economy – reaching far beyond farms and rural communities to support more than 48 million jobs across the country. agriculture.

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NASDA

JUNE 9, 2023

Further reducing greenhouse gas emissions throughout the agricultural and forestry supply chain will require a comprehensive effort involving financial and technical assistance, research investments, proactive response to innovation, public-private partnerships, and a commitment to equitable opportunities for all producers. We urge the U.S.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

MARCH 6, 2025

These are small businesses in rural communities. He was scheduled to plant 500 acres of grain this spring and the contract was scheduled to go through 2028. There are many small businesses, from excavating companies to plumbers, engineers, and suppliers that will also be impacted and they may not even know it yet.

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NASDA

JANUARY 25, 2024

food and agricultural commodities. Department of Agriculture, the United States achieved multiple important outcomes that protect science-based Codex standards. Department of Agriculture, the United States achieved multiple important outcomes that protect science-based Codex standards. food and agriculture producers.

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NASDA

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

NASDA represents the commissioners, secretaries, and directors of the state departments of agriculture in all 50 states and 4 U.S. State departments of agriculture are responsible for a wide range of programs, with agricultural trade promotion among our many priorities. agriculture. agriculture. territories.

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