Civil Eats

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Black polyethylene “mulch film” gets tucked snugly around crop rows, clear plastic sheeting covers hoop houses, and most farmers use plastic seed trays, irrigation tubes, and fertilizer bags. The field consumes 14 million tons of plastics every year, with crop and livestock production accounting for 80 percent.

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Farming Secrets

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

By having cover crops or perennial crops or forested or wooded areas the oxidising effect of tillage is avoided. Decreased water and wind erosion as with the current rate of soil loss by 2050 we will have lost 95% of arable lands to degradation and desertification. to keep temperatures below 1.5

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Agritecture Blog

MAY 26, 2023

Credit: World Resources Institute According to Strategy and PWC , GCC countries import about 85% of their food and approximately 56% of vegetables, largely due to the highly limited arable land in the region, averaging 4.25%. At the heart of each greenhouse lies cloud-based monitoring, facilitating optimal crop management.

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Agritecture Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Two people look at the crops in a vertical farm. kWh per kg of harvested crop, on average. National Geographic estimates that we’ll need to “roughly double the amount of crops we grow by 2050.” This method of using solar panels as crop cover helps shade sensitive plants while also generating electricity for the farm.

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Sustainable Food Trust

OCTOBER 1, 2024

They shear in April and do it themselves to avoid having to pay the Eastern European shearing gangs to remove what should be a valuable crop but has become another cost in an already struggling industry. Spanish merinos grazing We talked about shearing. The ‘wool is worthless’ mantra is clearly not unique to Britain.

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World Agri-Tech

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

We will not rest until every hectare of arable land is protected by mycorrhizae and every farmer benefits from higher crop yields while preserving our soils. For more information, visit [link] The post GroundWork BioAg announces launch of the Rootella Carbon program appeared first on World AgriTech USA.

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Trimble Agriculture

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Land Value – Historically increasing year-over-year. Cash Rental and Crop Share – Generating income by renting your land to other farmers for planting. Of that lost land, 4.4 million acres were considered “nationally significant,” meaning it was some of America’s best land for food and crop production.

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Agritecture Blog

MARCH 16, 2023

Various technologies and methodologies have begun to crop up over the last decade, presenting themselves as “silver bullets” to this food system problem. So, while these solutions may make sense for some countries with more efficient technology, more developed markets, and low arable land, in other countries they would not.

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Agritecture Blog

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

A recent report by McKinsey revealed that while Africa has large amounts of untapped agricultural land that could be used to increase production, much of this land is in unreachable areas. The lack of infrastructure, conflict zones, forest cover, and large conservation areas has made lots of arable lands inaccessible.

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The Lunatic Farmer

JANUARY 18, 2024

All other livestock industries will suffer a similar fate, while the knock-on effects for crop farmers and businesses throughout the value chain will be severe. Crop farming volume, such as soy, corn, and alfalfa, will fall by more than 50 percent. The volume of crops needed to feed cattle in the U.S.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

To reach that seven-year target, farmers and residents will have to further curtail water use by retiring wells, fallowing fields, and switching to less water-intensive crops; otherwise, the state engineer may intervene and order well curtailments. The expanse is among the most densely irrigated regions on Earth.

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Food Tank

JUNE 22, 2024

A study from the Aquatic and Crop Resource Development Research Centre suggests that algae is an excellent source of protein and vitamins, including antioxidants, omega-3, and vitamin B, and can be incorporated into and enhance plant-based diets. They also don’t require arable land or freshwater; they grow in abundance on land and by sea.

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Sustainable Food Trust

JANUARY 14, 2025

The arable land is farmed in a multi-year rotation including fodder crops such as lucerne, grains and vegetables such as carrots, potatoes, beetroot and parsnips. Mechthild Knsel runs a dairy herd and twice a month an animal is slaughtered for meat. She farms 220 hectares, of which 100 hectares are permanent pastures.

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Sustainable Food Trust

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

xvi] Regenerative agriculture is key to flood resilience and prevention of the decimation of crop yields. In periods of high rainfall, grasslands and woodlands soak up water much more effectively than arable land, reducing the speed of runoff and the risk of rivers bursting their banks.[xvii] xliii] IOFAM Organics Europe.

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World Agri-Tech

JANUARY 29, 2025

Corteva Agriscience , Syngenta , Bayer Crop Science , Benson Hill , Deloitte , Agrivi , and Digital Green weigh in on the effect of these innovations throughout the agri-food value chain, the evolution of AI applications, and the challenges that lie ahead for the sector. Jason Bull, CTO at Benson Hill, shares this sentiment.

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Civil Eats

JUNE 20, 2024

Instead of clearing expanses of arable land, she says, we can plant gardens that build on the existing natural elements of a place, forage for wood sorrel on the edges of garden beds, and gather purslane that’s poking through cracks in cement.

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