Food Tank

MAY 1, 2024

Collaborating with farmers, CIEL promotes natural agroecological practices such as crop rotation, legume cultivation, and the use of beneficial insects, fungi, and organic manure instead of chemical additives. Tostad says “it’s super crucial to always be very context-specific, and not even country-specific, but soil-specific.”

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

AUGUST 28, 2024

Precision Agriculture The FFNSA dramatically increases support for precision agriculture technologies in conservation programs (Sec. The FFNSA also proposes creating Supplemental Activity Payments (SAP) for adopting and acquiring precision agriculture technologies through CSP. 2202, 2204, 2302).

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Agritecture Blog

MAY 3, 2023

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.

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Agritecture Blog

JANUARY 27, 2023

Some firms are already buying a broader range of crops from farmers to incentivize these changes, says Bande at Quantis. Bain & Company recently estimated that average annual farm emissions in Canada could be cut in half or more through crop rotations, use of cover crops, reduced tillage and better nutrient management. “We

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

” 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.

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