Modern Farmer
MAY 7, 2024
When Paula and Dale Boles took over Dale’s father’s farmland in North Carolina, they thought that poultry farming would be a good way to work the land until they were ready to pass it on to their children. At the same time, he is learning how to effectively grow mushrooms on his farm in the old poultry barns.
National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition
SEPTEMBER 17, 2024
While many of these priorities – such as agricultural climate adaptation and mitigation, MMRV of greenhouse gas emissions, and public cultivar development – are important additions to improve AFRI’s focus on agroecological research, without increased funding, AFRI will be limited in its ability to address these new priority areas.
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Civil Eats
OCTOBER 16, 2023
Is Agroecology Being Coopted by Big Ag? In September, for example, Senator John Fetterman (D-Pennsylvania) introduced a bill that would eventually require the USDA to spend 20 percent of its meat and poultry procurement dollars with small- and mid-size processors. Food Systems Summit Give Corporations Too Much of a Voice?
Modern Farmer
AUGUST 12, 2024
Livestock, poultry and animal products brought in approximately $140 million. Measure J is more complicated for many local farmers, including Smith, who raises sheep, poultry and swine, in addition to hay. But he agrees with one major aspect of it: a ban on poultry confinement facilities in Sonoma. The average U.S.
National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition
MAY 20, 2024
USDA funding should be directed toward building an understanding of the ecological aspects of our food and farm systems and integrating the diverse knowledge and practices of agroecological farmers and farm workers, rather than continuing to explore and promote the narrow constraints of industrial-scale monoculture. (
Sustainable Food Trust
JULY 26, 2023
His first book A Small Farm Future argues for the importance of locally self-reliant, agrarian communities and agroecological food production. Chris Smaje is a social scientist and small-scale farmer and grower who writes widely about what he calls ‘low-energy localism’.
National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition
AUGUST 28, 2024
USDA funding should be directed toward building an understanding of the ecological aspects of our food and farm systems and integrating the diverse knowledge and practices of agroecological farmers and farm workers, rather than continuing to explore and promote the narrow constraints of monoculture-based systems.
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