Sustainable Food Trust

JANUARY 17, 2024

Attending this year’s Oxford Real Farming Conference earlier this month, SFT Content Editor, Alicia Miller, shares more on the sessions that took place, in her round-up article on this year’s event. The commons offer the most obvious route – if we can meaningfully reactivate it. Is it possible that it’s worn itself out?

Agroecology 78

Agroecology Food Livestock Farming 78

Civil Eats

JANUARY 8, 2024

He found this disconcerting, not only for himself but the future of small-scale grain farming in California, once known for its golden hills of grain. This specialized, often professionally operated equipment—and all farm equipment , for that matter—can be prohibitively challenging for many farmers to buy and maintain.

Grain 140

Grain Orchard Farming Farming 140

Food Tank

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Healthy soils, boosted by regenerative farming practices , can sequester more carbon from the atmosphere and more effectively store and drain water. We need the soil for our physical sustenance,” says the amazing Leah Penniman of Soul Fire Farm, “but I also very much believe we need the soil for our psycho-spiritual wellness.”

Food 119

Food Ranching Grain Crop Rotation 119

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JULY 14, 2023

As farmland becomes less functional as a result of increasing stresses from drought, floods, pests, and heatwaves, its regulation by diverse organisms becomes ever more important. The question of how to diversify farm production is closely linked with the question of expanding access to land.

Agriculture 98

Agriculture Agriculture Pasture Crop Rotation 98

Food Tank

AUGUST 1, 2023

This flexible technology and others like it are being harnessed by farmer-researcher teams to address the specific challenges of farming in semiarid climates. Over the course of Western colonization, those in power have largely dictated a one-size-fits-all approach to farming, often to the detriment of farmers’ livelihoods.

Fertilizer 92

Fertilizer Seeding Crop Crop Yield 92

Food Tank

AUGUST 29, 2023

Biologicals are farm inputs that come from living organisms like plants and bacteria rather than from fossil fuels, the source of nearly all modern pesticides and fertilizers. We can farm in accordance with these relationships. Millenia of farmer experience and decades of modern organic and agroecological farming show the way.

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Pesticide Fertilizer Acre Crop 98

Food Tank

APRIL 2, 2024

Food Well Alliance Food Well Alliance brings together leaders of the local food movement to support more than 300 community gardens, urban farms, and orchards in metro Atlanta. And in their Farm to School initiatives, they engage children with local, healthy food in cafeterias and classrooms.

Cultivation 86

Cultivation Food Marketing Distribution 86

The Equation

MARCH 4, 2024

Railways and natural resources were diverted away from Allensworth to white-owned interests and farm holdings. But maybe the most famous sabotage occurred in March of 2023, after heavy rains flooded Dear Creek and someone artificially diverted the water flow toward Allensworth to protect industrial farmland operations elsewhere.

Agriculture 104

Agriculture Agriculture Pesticide Ruralism 104

Sustainable Food Trust

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

In this article, Global Farm Metric Trials Manager, Olivia Boothman, shares her experience of visiting Nebraska on behalf of Regen10. Perfectly square patches of farmland cover the entire southeast of the state. Graham, a fifth generation farmer, who has recently started converting the farm to regenerative practices, filled me in.

Grain 52

Grain Farming Farming Agriculture 52

Sustainable Food Trust

JULY 26, 2023

Farmed deer are still in the field for the best part of their lives. This is because productive arable farmland, that could be used for growing food to be fed directly to people, is used for growing lower grade livestock cereals, from which only 17-30% of calories are returned for human consumption as meat or milk.

Poultry 52

Poultry Agroecology Pasture Food 52

Modern Farmer

JANUARY 19, 2024

Not all farmland is created equal,” says Jesse Womack, a conservation policy specialist with the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC). In return, they are paid a yearly rental rate per acre of land enrolled in CRP programs. In 2023, he USDA Farm Service Agency made more than $1.77 It is always overdrawn.”

Farming 80

Farming Farming Farmland Livestock 80

Food Tank

DECEMBER 24, 2024

40 Acres & A Mule Project , United States 40 Acres & A Mule seeks to acquire Black-owned farmland to be used to celebrate and preserve the history, food, and stories of Black culture in food and farming. promoting environmentally sound farming practices, and keeping farmers on their land.

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Food Agriculture Agriculture Ruralism 139

Modern Farmer

JULY 12, 2024

Here in Wauchula, a small farming town in Central Florida, cattle ranching is king. A shocking 74 percent of respondents to a Washington Post poll said cutting out meat would have little or no impact on climate change, despite the bulk of evidence showing the climate impacts of livestock farming, especially beef.

Cultivation 65

Cultivation Cattle Science Ranching 65

Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Both pieces of legislation, which face long odds of getting included in next year’s farm bill, represent a push to better use federal purchasing power to accelerate progress on goals that the Biden administration has stated are key to its policy vision, including climate action , equity , and improving competition and resilience.

Food 144

Food Supply Chain Greenhouse Poultry 144

National Young Farmers Coalition

JUNE 26, 2024

The Farm, Food, and National Security Act of 2024 recently passed by the House Agriculture Committee does not serve the new generation of farmers and ranchers in this country. Just before midnight on May 24, 2024, the House of Representatives Committee on Agriculture voted on the bill.

Food 40

Food Farming Farming Farmland 40

Caff

MARCH 7, 2024

But we also recognize that every decision we make—at the grocery store, in the voting booth, on our farms—has the potential to impact communities far away, too. Over the past several months, farming has become nearly impossible in Gaza, cut off from water, fuel, equipment and processing, as well as from their farmland.

Food 98

Food Agroecology Seeding Farming 98

The Equation

AUGUST 10, 2023

Although it is generically called the “farm” bill, it is really a food and farm bill that funds programs covering crop insurance, financial credit, and export subsidies for farmers, as well as nutrition-assistance support for low-income households. The trillion dollar question: Is Congress paying any attention?

Food 98

Food Farming Farming Agriculture 98