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We Can’t Achieve Food Justice if We Don’t Prioritize Soil Health

Food Tank

You don’t have to own a farm or a ranch to make meaningful change,” says rancher Gabe Brown, of Brown’s Ranch in North Dakota. “It And I’m pleased that the Inflation Reduction Act, passed in 2022, committed a historic US$20 million toward rebuilding healthy soils, improving water quality, and conserving the land.

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17 Food and Ag Approaches to Tackling the Climate Crisis

Civil Eats

Rupert Murdoch’s Montana ranch is at the center of an effort to get grass-fed beef into mainstream grocery stores; others are using investments to build new markets entirely. One organization is equipping them with resources to support producers using regenerative practices instead. Investment Is Flowing to US Grass-fed Beef Again.

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Inside Florida’s Ban on Lab-Grown Meat

Modern Farmer

Here in Wauchula, a small farming town in Central Florida, cattle ranching is king. Photography by Shutterstock/Lukas Guertler The Chewy Science of Cultivated Meat Even as the 18th-largest cattle ranching state, Florida’s cattle history has deep roots dating back to Spanish colonization in the 16th century.

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The Fifth National Climate Assessment: Implications for Agriculture

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

In response, the chapter centers agroecological solutions like enhanced soil health and diversified landscapes. However, organic production, silvopasture, agroforestry and “other agroecological systems” are also listed among solutions. Ranching decisions frequently exclude climate change-related information.

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Banning Concentrated Feedlots is on the Ballot in Sonoma

Modern Farmer

“CAFOs, local and national, continue to drive retail prices down below levels that can sustain small, humane, agroecological producers,” he said. Bronte Edwards and her wife, Liz Bell, who run Rainbow Family Ranching, share these concerns. Edwards and Bell are self-described “queer first-gen livestock ranchers.”

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Can Agroforestry Breathe New Life Into Carbon Markets?

Civil Eats

The most similar effort, says Stuart, is the California-based Zero Foodprint , which awards grants to farms and ranches working to draw down carbon using donations from restaurants and other food businesses.) The Carbon Harvest team isn’t aware of a local agricultural carbon credit market being developed anywhere else in the country.

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Digging into the House Farm Bill: Part 4

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

This is a major loss, as the ARA proposed retargeting two-thirds of this carveout towards sustainable grazing practices, which have been shown to help mitigate climate change and build increased resilience to drought and floods on farms and ranches around the nation.

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