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. This information enables farmers to make informed decisions about what amendments are needed, such as adding fertilizers or lime, to create a balanced and productive environment.

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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. A Market Worth Millions If kelp forests disappear, so would wild-harvested seed for farmed kelp. American farmers can expect to pay about $1 a foot for string inoculated with kelp seed.

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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. Supported by $6.2 million in Series A funding, for a total of $22 million from U.S. And many startups have benefited from those E.U.

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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. The men disembarked, water up to their knees.

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Civil Eats

JUNE 27, 2024

She points out that most of the shellfish she harvests these days have been seeded manually by the town of Southampton and local universities, “almost like a science project,” she says. Rich in minerals, kelp grows quickly and doesn’t require fertilizer. Now, she says, “it takes us a while to even get a couple of dozen clams.

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Farmbrite

AUGUST 15, 2024

Fisheries Finance Program The Fisheries Finance Program (FFP) is a direct government loan program that provides long-term financing for the cost of construction or reconstruction of fishing vessels, fisheries facilities, aquacultural facilities, and individual fishing quota in the Northwest Halibut/Sablefish and Alaskan Crab Fisheries.

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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. Obtaining the reliably productive, inexpensive kelp seed for the farm is another. Transportation is one. For Lord, trucking kelp to Portland would be cost- and time-prohibitive.

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