Civil Eats

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Leafy greens, such as lettuce, have a high transfer rate and can easily carry dangerous levels of forever chemicals as can hay and grasses usedfor animal forage. For this reason, McBrady adds, some farms are being encouraged to switch to grains, which are less likely to absorb PFAS. “We

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JULY 14, 2023

Greater increases in structural, variety, and species diversity may be created with agroforestry systems, mixing trees and shrubs into annual and perennial grain, legume, and vegetable crops. Mixed summer forage in the Southeast U.S. That includes agroforestry systems, perennial pasture systems, and perennial grain crops.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

AUGUST 28, 2024

Turning back to the CIG program, the FFNSA adds “perennial production systems, including agroforestry and perennial forages and grain crops” to the scope of CIG On-Farm Conservation Innovation Trials.

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Civil Eats

JUNE 20, 2024

Brazil’s national requirement that 30 percent of school food ingredients be sourced from local and regional family farms helps empower and fund women agroecological producers. In On Gold Hill , Moyer weaves together her attempt to grow the grain with the story she unearths of her family through the generations. Meanwhile, in the U.S.,

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The Equation

AUGUST 10, 2023

For example, ranchers fatten cattle on grain during the final months of their lives in large-scale feedlots, which—along with massive hog and poultry feeding operations—are major sources of methane and nitrous oxide emissions, primarily due to the way cattle digest fiber and the mismanagement of open-air manure lagoons.

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