National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JANUARY 17, 2024

In response, the chapter centers agroecological solutions like enhanced soil health and diversified landscapes. However, solutions to livestock methane center on feed supplements and energy capture from liquid manure systems rather than grazing systems. the Osage Nation’s community orchard.

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Agriculture Agriculture Forage Livestock 105

Modern Farmer

JANUARY 19, 2024

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 Now, they absorb up to 16 inches of rain per hour,” says Jack Algiere, director of agroecology at Stone Barn.

Farming 97

Farming Farming Farmland Livestock 97

Civil Eats

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Others have been able to relieve the problem through water treatments and removal of affected hay and manure. 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.

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Farming Farming Farmland Crop 145

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JULY 14, 2023

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.

Agriculture 87

Agriculture Agriculture Crop Rotation Pasture 87

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. Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) NSAC is pleased to see some inclusion of the ARA in FFNSA’s proposal for AFRI.

Farming 83

Farming Farming Agriculture Agriculture 83

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.

Food 98

Food Farming Farming Agriculture 98

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 Into the Weeds , however, Tama Matsuoka Wong introduces readers to the anthropological concept of the “ middle ground ” between foraging and farming.

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Food Farming Farming Forage 145