Farmbrite

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Adding the right amount of fertilizer is an essential practice for nutrient management based on your farm's goals and soil conditions. To cultivate robust crops, understanding the soil's condition is vital, which is where soil testing comes in. One way we see farms overspending is through the overuse of fertilizers.

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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

and European governments, grants, and venture capital, Ocean Rainforest also operates seaweed farms in the Faroe Islands and Iceland that supply the animal-feed, fertilizer, and cosmetic industries. In Alaska, seaweed farmers can only cultivate seaweed varieties that grow natively within 50 kilometers of their farm. Supported by $6.2

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Civil Eats

AUGUST 21, 2024

People of the First Light For thousands of years, the Wampanoag —the “People of the First Light”—have harvested fish for food, trade, art, and fertilizer. In 2022, the tribe was awarded an aquaculture grant of $1.1 With a grunt, he plunged his rake into the water and dug in.

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Civil Eats

JULY 17, 2024

Here, over the next 45 days, the spores will be carefully cultivated into seed for farmers and scientists to outplant in the ocean. I don’t know any other agricultural or aquaculture industry where the cost of seed can be as much as 50 percent of the farmer’s revenue.” According to the U.N.’s produces less than.01

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Civil Eats

JUNE 27, 2024

Rich in minerals, kelp grows quickly and doesn’t require fertilizer. The Scientists Who Kickstarted American Kelp Farming The science behind this boom in seaweed cultivation began in New England nearly 50 years ago. Seaweed farming, a longstanding tradition in Asia for more than a hundred years, is now gaining a place on U.S.

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Civil Eats

JULY 31, 2024

Atlantic Sea Farms, the largest seaweed aquaculture business in the country, has solved several challenges that seaweed farmers face in Maine and other states. But for small farmers like himself, he says, kelp farming “wouldn’t be possible for us if we didn’t have a good business to deal with.” Transportation is one.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

JUNE 1, 2023

They sell the wild and cultivated seaweed dried, and use the less delicious, more abundant kinds to fertilize the saltwater farm they’re reviving nearby. Others want to use kelp to reduce emissions by replacing carbon-intensive materials like soy, fertilizers, plastic, and petroleum with seaweed-derived versions.

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