Civil Eats

DECEMBER 17, 2024

In the heart of Louisiana, about 100 miles north of Baton Rouge, lies the rain-soaked farm that lured Konda Mason away from California in 2020. Land access was the first step. Thats because so much rice is grown around the world: Roughly 11 percent of all arable land is devoted to this crop, a daily staple for half the people on Earth.

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Sustainable Food Trust

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Here, our Senior Research Manager, Robert Barbour – who comes from a Perthshire hill-farm – writes about the often overlooked environmental and social benefits that well-managed Scottish grasslands can deliver. In recent years, Scotland’s grasslands have developed a bit of an image problem. more nuanced positions.

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 15, 2024

Armed with little more than ingenuity and entrepreneurial drive, microgreen growers are transforming the unused corners of their dwellings into profitable farming operations. After finishing college seven years ago, the “video gam- playing, beer-drinking kid” dusted off a section of his parents’ Long Island cellar to launch his micro farm.

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Food Tank

JULY 26, 2024

That’s because we use no arable land, no freshwater (we make our own on the vessels), no pesticides or fertilizer, and no food to harvest these fish from the wild. The United States has some of the most stringent laws and regulations for fishing and fish farming on Earth, yet around 90 percent of the seafood we eat is imported.

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Trimble Agriculture

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Buying farmland is like investing in gold—and farm property loans can help you do it. Keep reading to learn how you can leverage interest-only farm property loans to buy farmland and increase your profitability. Why Buy Farm Property? Agritourism – Generating income through farm festivals, tours, venue spaces, and more.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 4, 2023

In China, for example, research shows that plastic field covers keep the soil warm and wet in a way that boosts productivity considerably; an additional 15,000 square miles of arable land—an area about the size of Switzerland—would be required to produce the same amount of food.

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Farming Secrets

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

This is critical distinction as to the effect of leaving land exposed of deforestation of overgrazing and the use of the plough and industrialised chemical farming has alter vast amounts of the earths land surface, as the amount of heat reradiated from the surface is = to the surface temperature to the power of 4!

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Agritecture Blog

MAY 26, 2023

Credit: Mojan Farms. 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%. Herbs grown by Mojan Farms. As stated by Ryan M.

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Sustainable Food Trust

OCTOBER 1, 2024

In a visit to Spain, shepherd Julie Baber meets fellow shepherds, David and Antonio, who farm in Castilla y León. The way forward and the way back – sheep were never really meant to be penned inside small paddocks of intensively farmed grass, unless it was for short periods to manure arable land.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 12, 2024

With a population of almost half a million, the region is known for its arable land and stunning vistas – the “Tuscany of America,” according to local rancher Bronte Edwards. Calves stick their heads out of pens at a farm near Healdsburg, California. farm is 464 acres.) Reichardt Duck Farm settled the suit. “We

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World Agri-Tech

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

In a recent survey of top producers in the United States, 63% of respondents said they would enroll in a carbon program if a product like Rootella unlocks additional revenue and fits easily into existing farming practices. “I invest in my soil; it is a true asset.” ” Mycorrhizal Fungi are Carbon’s Main Pathway into Soil.

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Agritecture Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2022

A worker replants lettuce in a vertical farm. Two workers inspect plants in a vertical farm. Plasma Activated Water has a multitude of benefits and applications within the CEA space which can maximize efficiency and hygiene for hydroponic farms. Two people look at the crops in a vertical farm. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

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The Lunatic Farmer

JANUARY 18, 2024

The impact of this disruption on industrial animal farming will be profound. will have fallen by 50 percent and the cattle farming industry will be all but bankrupt. Crop farming volume, such as soy, corn, and alfalfa, will fall by more than 50 percent. By 2030, the number of cows in the U.S. Before we reach this point, the U.S.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

On a dry, hot day in June, water manager Chris Ivers plunged his hand into San Luis Creek and extracted a tangled mat of weeds that had blocked icy snowmelt from reaching nearby farms. The goal, he added, is to significantly curtail water use on the property in order “to help make farming in the rest of this region more sustainable.”

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Agritecture Blog

MARCH 16, 2023

Greenhouses and vertical farms, widely known as trusted methods of year-round agricultural production, seem to be context-agnostic solutions to agri-food supply chain disruptions, desertification, and other climate change-related problems. Vertical farms too could cost upwards of $350 per square foot, and require even more energy.

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Agritecture Blog

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Credit: Vertical Farming Planet. For millions of Africans, decades of reliance on traditional farming techniques and poor policymaking have created vulnerabilities that are only worsened by the impacts of climate change and natural disasters. One of Africa's most prominent and perhaps persistent challenges is food security.

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Sustainable Food Trust

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Farming and food production are central to UK society. This short briefing explores how regenerative farming is core to delivery of Labour’s missions, and how public investment in the farming transformation can deliver for its economic, environmental and social goals. This level of ambition is needed again now.

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Sustainable Food Trust

JANUARY 14, 2025

A good life and death within the herd Farmer Herbert Siegel had already found a way to slaughter his animals on farm, but the new EU framework and the guidelines issued by the state of Bavaria has made things easier. Mechthild Knsel farms near Lake Constance and spent years trying to find a solution for on-farm slaughter.

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Food Tank

JUNE 22, 2024

They also don’t require arable land or freshwater; they grow in abundance on land and by sea. AlgaeProBANOS is also supporting companies that use reactors to farm algae on land and at sea. The algae is then incorporated into consumer products including snack foods, animal feed, and cosmetics.

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Civil Eats

JUNE 20, 2024

To ring in the first day of summer, we at Civil Eats want to offer you a list of food and farming books we think are worth your time and attention. Brazil’s national requirement that 30 percent of school food ingredients be sourced from local and regional family farms helps empower and fund women agroecological producers.

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World Agri-Tech

JANUARY 29, 2025

With nearly one-third of the worlds arable land under agriculture, AI has the potential to revolutionize food production at scale. Its significantly shortened crop breeding cycles and enabled us to develop crop protection products that exceed safety and sustainability criteria.

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Civil Eats

AUGUST 15, 2023

The sites pave the way for possibly dozens of new open-pen fish farms as far as three miles offshore, the future home of species that range from carp to salmon. The plan, released last October, outlines national goals for a thriving and sustainable domestic farmed seafood sector. suitable for development. So why, then, is the U.S.

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