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Inside Florida’s Ban on Lab-Grown Meat

Modern Farmer

JULY 12, 2024

Here in Wauchula, a small farming town in Central Florida, cattle ranching is king. Meanwhile, in the Netherlands, the same farmers struggling with the effects of climate change, like drought, are revolting against stricter regulations on pollution from livestock manure. Before him sat a small crowd dotted with cowboy hats.

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‘An Insane Amount of Water’: What Climate Change Means For California’s Biggest Dairy District

Modern Farmer

JULY 10, 2023

As westward expansion swept across the region in the late 1800s, settlers began draining the 40-foot deep lake for farmland. But thirsty crops and cattle have taken their toll: Amid California’s cycles of drought, excessive groundwater pumping has left Central Valley basins the most overdrafted in the state.

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The Healing Power of Collaboration – Timber Ridge, Nanton, Alberta

RR2CS

JANUARY 3, 2024

By Trina Moyles Glen and Kelly Hall have been managing Timber Ridge Ranch, a 480-acre farmland situated an hour south of Calgary near Stavely, Alberta, for over 40 years. It’s kinda cool to watch the cattle eat turnips because they’ll eat the leaf first, then the stem, then they’ll pull the turnip up and eat that, as well.

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Mixing solar power and agriculture: A blueberry farm does a test run

Agritecture Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2022

He hopes that a new “crop” growing in tandem with berries could help boost the local industry and preserve farmland. With dual-use agrivoltaics, crops are grown under or between the rows of solar panels, with the aim of generating renewable energy without removing farmland from production.

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Agricultural Diversification: Practice and Policy

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JULY 14, 2023

As farmland becomes less functional as a result of increasing stresses from drought, floods, pests, and heatwaves, its regulation by diverse organisms becomes ever more important. The mix fixes nitrogen and livestock can graze the mix directly in the field, returning nutrients to the soil via manure.

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When Not Farming is the Best Use of Land

Modern Farmer

JANUARY 19, 2024

Not all farmland is created equal,” says Jesse Womack, a conservation policy specialist with the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC). Photography submitted by Delta Farmland & Wildlife Trust. In general, permanently retiring farmland has much better benefits for the climate than even working lands with conservation.”

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Across Farm Country, Fertilizer Pollution Impacts Not Just Health, but Water Costs, Too

Civil Eats

MAY 1, 2024

The other main factor, manure, is also increasing as CAFOs become more prevalent. Nancy Utesch and her husband, Lynn, live on 150 acres of land in Kewaunee County, Wisconsin, where they rotationally graze beef cattle. Roughly 80 percent of the farmland in Iowa is owned by offsite landlords, who rent it out to farmers.

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More regenerative farming may be a climate solution. But another climate solution is impeding its progress

The Counter

APRIL 27, 2022

They’d take a few hundred acres of both leased and family-owned central-Texas farmland—land that for decades had grown row crops of corn and cotton—and give it “what it wants back,” he said. See full series Back around 2011, Jonathan Cobb and his wife, Kaylyn, had what he calls a “simple game plan.”

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Ask a Scientist: Will the New Farm Bill Transform the US Food System?

The Equation

AUGUST 10, 2023

A product of President Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal, the first farm bills were enacted in the 1930s in response to the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl drought, which ruined farmland across the Great Plains.

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Can Taller Cover Crops Help Clean the Water in Farm Country?

Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Instead, he wants his cattle to harvest their own feed via managed rotational grazing, even in the winter. It works as both a cover crop and forage for the cattle, and it’s helping Bedtka build up organic matter in his soil. farmland is regularly cover cropped. Any day you can graze is better,” says Bedka.

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Organic Farming for Ecosystem Biodiversity & Diversity – Larchgrove Farm, Barrhead County

RR2CS

MARCH 8, 2022

In 2006, they began to look for farmland around Edmonton, but the exorbitant cost of land — in some areas, upward of a million dollars — was insurmountable on teacher’s salaries. Then, we planted green manures and cover crops to help build up the topsoil again, which had been pretty depleted over the years. It was literally cooking.

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Can $3 billion persuade Black farmers to trust the USDA?

Food Environment and Reporting Network

JANUARY 8, 2024

A project run by Central State University will reduce this feedlot’s methane emissions through an innovative manure management system. The project will reduce the feedlot’s methane emissions through an innovative manure management system that prevents the liquids and solids from separating. But their equity goals tend to be fuzzy.

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PARALLEL ECONOMIES - AGRICULTURE

The Lunatic Farmer

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Pastured livestock offer much higher percentages of conjugated linoleic acid; indeed, only two weeks of grain feeding chases it out of the body on beef cattle. You couldn’t pack more animals in a house than you could bring in feedstocks and haul out manure by draft power. Travelers drug manure into hotels.

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How Four Years of Biden Reshaped Food and Farming

Civil Eats

JANUARY 15, 2025

A fifth rule related to creating fairer cattle markets is still in its early stages. million acres of farmland are involved as of January 2025. billion in 7,200 on-farm renewable energy projects, including installing manure digesters and solar panels and $6 billion in rural electric coops. Bidens USDA also invested $2.2

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Inside Florida’s Ban on Lab-Grown Meat

‘An Insane Amount of Water’: What Climate Change Means For California’s Biggest Dairy District

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The Healing Power of Collaboration – Timber Ridge, Nanton, Alberta

Mixing solar power and agriculture: A blueberry farm does a test run

Agricultural Diversification: Practice and Policy

When Not Farming is the Best Use of Land

Across Farm Country, Fertilizer Pollution Impacts Not Just Health, but Water Costs, Too

More regenerative farming may be a climate solution. But another climate solution is impeding its progress

Ask a Scientist: Will the New Farm Bill Transform the US Food System?

Can Taller Cover Crops Help Clean the Water in Farm Country?

Organic Farming for Ecosystem Biodiversity & Diversity – Larchgrove Farm, Barrhead County

Can $3 billion persuade Black farmers to trust the USDA?

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How Four Years of Biden Reshaped Food and Farming

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