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Regenerative Agriculture: A Strategic Approach for Farming

Cropaia

Regenerative farmers adopt a range of practices, such as cover cropping, crop rotation, reduced tillage, and diverse planting, to regenerate the soil and promote natural systems within their farms. Cover crops also support biodiversity and provide habitat for beneficial insects. What’s in It for Farmers?

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Agricultural Diversification: Practice and Policy

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

Including noncrop vegetation alongside crops may further increase genetic diversity in a geographic area, as with prairie strips or field borders and other conservation buffers within or adjacent to crop fields. And diversity may also include the temporal diversity of crop rotations.

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Digging into the House Farm Bill: Part 4

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

Currently, CSP only offers SAPs for Resource Conserving Crop Rotations , Improved Resource Conserving Crop Rotations , and Advanced Grazing Management. The FFNSA maintains the existing carveout that ensures livestock producers will receive 50% of total EQIP funding during the life of the farm bill.

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5 Critical Agriculture Topics to Incorporate Into Any Climate-Related Event

Agritecture Blog

Importantly, many farmers also argue that profitability can be significantly increased due to lowered reliance on expensive chemical inputs, thanks to techniques such as crop rotation, holistic grazing, and cover cropping that can add nutrients back to the soil. Yet few commercial agrivoltaic projects exist today.

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Food and Farming at the Forefront of Labour’s Missions for Change – September 2024

Sustainable Food Trust

xxxiii] This is largely due to ammonia emissions from heavy fertiliser use and intensive livestock farming. For example, modelling studies suggest the adoption of silvopasture (integration of trees and livestock) on 10% of the UK’s grassland area could sequester 5.477 to 13.39 25 and 60% of the UK’s total current livestock emissions).

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Why we’re in a critical period in the development of regenerative agriculture

Agritecture Blog

Just how far regenerative agriculture can cut emissions from livestock farming remains moot. There are carbon gains to be had in crop production, too – from ensuring commodities like soya and palm oil are deforestation-free (a considerable carbon win) to reducing chemical inputs and diversifying what’s grown.

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California Decides What ‘Regenerative Agriculture’ Means. Sort of.

Civil Eats

” Broadly speaking, regenerative agriculture improves soil health and carbon sequestration through diverse crop rotations, animal grazing, limited tillage, and reduced (or eliminated) external inputs like fertilizer and pesticides. You should back away from this definition and call it agroecological or holistic.