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The Fifth National Climate Assessment: Implications for Agriculture

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

For example, increasing aridity in the Southwest and increasingly wet conditions throughout the northeast regions of the country–from the Midwest through New England–are likely to challenge crop and livestock production. In response, the chapter centers agroecological solutions like enhanced soil health and diversified landscapes.

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Agricultural Diversification: Practice and Policy

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

And beyond the diversification associated with cropping fields, adding livestock diversity into a system can reduce challenges like pests and diseases while allowing for nutrient cycling from livestock to soil and back to crop or forage species. Mixed summer forage in the Southeast U.S.

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PFAS Shut Maine Farms Down. Now, Some Are Rebounding.

Civil Eats

This gives a blueprint of the situation and provides an opportunity to consider mitigation strategies such as changing the rotation of livestock, cleaning up the water, or trying a different crop.” “First and foremost, we are on the ground doing scientific analysis of the source of the PFAS with comprehensive testing that we pay for.

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Do chickens deserve better?

Sustainable Food Trust

These animals live on a diet of mainly pasture and forage, making use of land that is often unsuitable for growing other crops. Examples of good practice are already flourishing in organic and agroecological enterprises. Sheep, cattle and other ruminants are rarely raised exclusively indoors in Britain.

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Digging into the House Farm Bill: Part 4

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

The FFNSA maintains the existing carveout that ensures livestock producers will receive 50% of total EQIP funding during the life of the farm bill. This long standing setaside has led to significant portions of EQIP spending going towards infrastructure practices of questionable environmental value.

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When Not Farming is the Best Use of Land

Modern Farmer

The GLSAs provide vegetative cover for foraging, roosting and nesting wildlife including raptors, wading birds, songbirds, pollinating insects and small mammals such as moles and mice. “We Removing livestock for even 10 years from this land can cause an ecological disaster in grassland communities.”

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Soil for Water Video Case Studies

ATTRA

Virginia Tech and Virginia Cooperative Extension’s project team conducted 11 semi-structured interviews and conversations across Virginia to learn and better understand farmers’ and ranchers’ agroecological motivations and overall values related to the protection and conservation of water resources. In this video, Brent shares who (i.e.,

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