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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. farmers and ranchers are unable to fully participate in and benefit from emerging markets for sustainably-produced foods.

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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. Snails live in pens that measure 3m x 40m, as shown here.

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‘The Avocado Debate’: Can organic labelling make a difference?

Sustainable Food Trust

Farmers need to have annual inspections to demonstrate delivery against those standards, ranging from controlled pesticide usage to crop rotations and natural fertiliser usage. For products to be certified as organic, they must meet a series of standards that are set and audited by certification bodies (CBs).

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

Sustainable Food Trust

Farmers’ self-sufficiency and resilience in the face of market shocks and extreme climate events will be essential components of the UK’s future food security, and the social stability, health and growth the Government seeks. xxxix] [xl] [xli] Including temporary leys in crop rotations across the UK’s arable area could sequester c.2.2

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

Agritecture Blog

Carbon offsetting schemes are already being used to market huge numbers of products and we believe that building soil carbon stocks is no different,” he explains. Some firms are already buying a broader range of crops from farmers to incentivize these changes, says Bande at Quantis. It’s the system that’s changing,” she says.