ATTRA

DECEMBER 26, 2023

By Lee Rinehart, NCAT Agriculture Specialist I’m sure farmers have been using living mulches for ages. He would let the cover crop grow and overwinter and then plow down the following spring for green manure. Instead, I can terminate my winter cover and lightly plow it in this spring, put out my transplants, and undersow white clover.

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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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Agwired

MARCH 22, 2024

The Agricultural Business Council of Kansas City will honor the late Cliff Becker and Dr. Scott Brown with the group’s prestigious Jay B. Dillingham Award for Agricultural Leadership and Excellence at a luncheon on May 16 in Kansas City’s historic Union Station. Julia Letlow (R-LA) with AFBF’s Golden Plow award. The 2024 U.S.

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Trimble Agriculture

OCTOBER 25, 2023

The Farm Crisis of the 1980s and Farm Consolidation In the 1970s, concern about feeding the growing population led to Earl Butz, the Secretary of Agriculture, calling for farmers to “get big or get out.” In fact, 90 percent of the agricultural debt market isn’t diversified across commodities, regions, or experience.

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DTN

JULY 24, 2023

Different agricultural practices emit or sequester different amounts of carbon, so multiple farming practices must be considered when determining a farm’s environmental impact. Trackable events include plowing, minimum-till cultivation, crop rotation, crop type, cover crop presence, irrigation events, harvest date, and crop residue presence.

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Agwired

DECEMBER 8, 2023

The United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) will release the 2022 Census of Agriculture data on February 13, 2024. NASS plans to release the data from the 2022 Puerto Rico Census of Agriculture in summer 2024. with AFBF’s Golden Plow award. Virgin Islands.

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Caff

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

While ag tech might conjure images of robots and satellite-driven tractors plowing vast acreages, some innovators are focusing their ingenuity on the needs of smaller-scale farmers.

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Cropaia

OCTOBER 13, 2024

In conventional tillage, plowing redistributes nutrients across the soil profile, mixing organic matter and nutrients from the surface with deeper soil layers. Why Micronutrient Deficiencies Occur in No-Till Systems Nutrient Stratification One of the key challenges in no-till systems is nutrient stratification.

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Agwired

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced that most farm loan borrowers will be able to make payments to their direct loans online through the Pay My Loan feature on farmers.gov in early February. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced two U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) investments designed to support the U.S.

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Agritecture Blog

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Despite being "perfectly good to eat," up to 40 percent of Melvin's 36 hectares of cauliflower gets plowed back into the ground each year, according to the Nova Scotia farmer's estimates. "We No farmer grows food to then plow it under," Nikkel said. A worker dumps pre-consumer food waste in Langley, B.C. Credit: Ben Nelms/Reuters.

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National Young Farmers Coalition

OCTOBER 11, 2023

National Businesses and Organizations American Sustainable Business Network Amphibian and Reptile Conservancy California Certified Organic Farmers (CCOF) Carbon180 Defenders of Wildlife Earthjustice Environmental Policy Innovation Center Environmental Working Group Farm Aid HEAL Food Alliance Healthy Food Strategies Latino Farmers & Ranchers International, (..)

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ATTRA

JULY 11, 2023

By Nina Prater, NCAT Agriculture Specialist Over 15 years ago, I moved from Vermont to Arkansas, and I’ve been here farming in the Ozarks ever since. The differences between the two places revealed themselves more and more the longer I lived here. This line of questioning led him to understand the importance of soil health for crop growth.

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Far Eastern Agriculture

JULY 19, 2024

IDTechEx’s new report, ‘Battery Markets in Construction, Agriculture and Mining Machines 2024-2034’, showed that CAM machines require a diverse range of battery solutions to cater to their individual needs It has taken around 15 years to convince car owners that battery power is a viable alternative to their fossil fuel comfort blanket.

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Cropaia

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

Agriculture is undergoing a transformation, with sustainability taking center stage. In light of this shift, modern agriculture faces a critical dilemma. Traditional plowing or tilling can disrupt the soil structure, making it more susceptible to erosion.

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ATTRA

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

By Lee Rinehart, NCAT Agriculture Specialist In my past two blogs, I reflected on planting cover crops on small plots and gardens. I wrote these blogs because, as an agricultural educator, I need to ground truth what I teach. If you missed them, you can read them here and here. My little mad farm helps me do that. It keeps me honest.

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ATTRA

APRIL 9, 2024

By Lee Rinehart , NCAT Agriculture Specialist September is the beginning of my year. As my tomato plants were more than ready to be set out, I had to get the cover cut, chopped, and plowed into the soil in preparation for transplanting. Agricultural fallout. But a mechanical tiller? A machine of destruction? The Dust Bowl.

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Farmbrite

JUNE 1, 2023

These days, farming is a lot more than just plowing the field and planting seeds. Young farmers face even more challenges to getting started in agriculture than their predecessors did: tighter budgets, higher costs of living, stricter lending standards and less land availability to buy.

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Agritecture Blog

MARCH 23, 2023

Setting up the farm was a challenge for Mattia - the physical labor was exhausting, and additionally, Mattia was not familiar with plowing, crop production, or other farm procedures. It is located on 1.2 hectares of land upon which Mattia has created 38 pens, each 120m2 in size. So, he has had to learn all of this “on the fly.”

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Daily Yonder

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Farmers in many parts of the world, particularly smallholder, Indigenous, and family farmers, are increasingly seeing their agriculture practices turn against them. They also embraced crop diversity by adopting traditional crops, including hardier, more nutritious varieties that had been orphaned by modern agriculture demands.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

JULY 13, 2023

Department of Agriculture (USDA) program, this amalgam of farming methods aims to keep the American agricultural juggernaut steaming ahead while slashing the sector’s immense greenhouse gas footprint. billion to hundreds of agriculture organizations, corporations, universities, and nonprofits for climate-smart projects.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Plastics are tightly woven into the fabric of modern agriculture. But plasticulture, or the use of plastic products in agriculture, also comes with a wide range of known problems. In the larger scope, agriculture accounts for a small slice of the plastics pie—less than 3 percent of the annual 440 million tons produced worldwide.

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The Equation

MAY 11, 2023

This disaster should serve as a sobering reminder that policymakers and the agriculture industry need to do more to adapt to our changing climate. Although most people don’t notice it, erosion and soil degradation caused by industrial agriculture are already a problem in farming regions across the country. A new Dust Bowl?

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

JUNE 1, 2023

Welcome got her start building a movement of young farmers before becoming enraptured by seaweed, “beings that haven’t been corralled, that haven’t been weeded or bred or contained or plowed up,” she said. Welcome is excited about seaweed’s potential. Please consider making a donation to support our work.

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UnderstandingAg

DECEMBER 31, 2024

The Cheapest Hay Is the Hay You Never Buy *Additional management considerations for this article were provided by Kent Solberg, Understanding Ag, LLC Stockpiled Pasture Regenerative agriculture and adaptive grazing often focus on reducing inputs in an agriculture production system.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Department of Agriculture and food giants such as Land O’Lakes, Corteva, Bayer, and Cargill are paying farmers millions of dollars to sow rye, clover, radishes or other crops after, or even before, they harvest their corn and soybeans. And they raise the risk of additional acres being plowed up to compensate for the lower yields.

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Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Moving from daytime to overnight work is often presented as the most practical solution for agricultural laborers struggling with rising temperatures as a result of climate change. full_link LEARN MORE Opinion: As the heat rises, we must do better at protecting agricultural workers. Its a massive lose-lose situation.

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The Equation

MAY 15, 2023

And the agriculture industry, which uses an outsize amount of California’s water and has literally changed the state’s landscape, needs to change and adapt, fast. Agriculture is the largest user of water in the western states. What can farmers do to avoid weather “whiplash”?

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

And its early success has conservationists and lawmakers hoping it can become a model for local, state, and federal farm conservation programs, and in the process serve as a way of disrupting the corn-bean-feedlot machine that dominates Midwestern agriculture. Since 2016, the U.S. farmland is regularly cover cropped.

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National Young Farmers Coalition

APRIL 23, 2024

population – know about or pay attention to the Farm Bill, the legislative vehicle for much of the nation’s agricultural and food policies. Agriculture and food are not synonymous, but that’s for another day.) No more funding for specialty crops, urban agriculture, conservation, or the Gus Schumacher Healthy Incentives Program.

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Goldfarb spoke with Modern Farmer about his new book, how roads have impacted animals and agriculture and where we might go from here. MF: I want to talk a little bit about the intersection of roads and agriculture and ranching. But to the other species on this planet, roads have fundamentally changed their existence.

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Civil Eats

MAY 1, 2024

These nitrogen-based compounds, common in agricultural runoff, are linked to multiple cancers and health issues for those exposed. and the reason comes down to one major source: Agricultural runoff. ppm for nitrates. Each year, the measurement in their water kept creeping up.

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Civil Eats

JUNE 4, 2024

Agriculture has been a way of life and a source of meaning and pride for Black and Indigenous people for centuries, shaping rituals, beliefs, and traditions. Slavery and colonialism exploited their agricultural knowledge and shattered their lives. Civilization is built on the back of successful agriculture. Eulalia Williams.

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The Counter

APRIL 27, 2022

02 02 Regenerative agriculture needs a reckoning 03 03 When a Big Ag conglomerate buys an iconic niche meat company, who has to change? 04 04 Regenerative agriculture could save soil, water, and the climate. Farmers are giving up much-needed cropland to solar companies, but can the two work in tandem? Here’s how the U.S.

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Agritecture Blog

MAY 19, 2023

However, industrial agriculture — characterized by the use of heavy tillage, intensive monocropping, and excessive grazing — has resulted in the degradation of the very soils that sustain our food supply. CONTENT SOURCED FROM LEARN LIBERTY Written by: Max Payne May 19, 2023 The connection between a farmer and their land is unmatched.

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Daily Yonder

MARCH 4, 2024

Department of Agriculture report using 2015 data, the most recent available. million farmers and ranchers in the country, according to the USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture. To help close the gaps in access to care, the Texas Department of Agriculture implemented AgriStress , a toll-free helpline, in February 2021. for the U.S.

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Caff

MAY 24, 2022

It’s just as important as plowing, making rows and laying irrigation lines.” Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Agricultural Marketing Service through grant AM190100XXXXG008. Learn more about Fresno Freedom School on The Farmer’s Beet Podcast.

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 30, 2024

Photography by Leitenberger Photography/Shutterstock The impacts of extreme weather events and disasters on agriculture have been nearly unbelievable in some areas. We brought in a plow and dug a big trench, and then we piled all of his dead cattle up and rolled it into the trench with the snowplow….The

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