Farmbrite

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Implementing the following practices can increase the efficient use of nutrients in your farm or growing system. But before that, you need to learn and understand the specific irrigation and nutrient management practices for better farming outcomes. One way we see farms overspending is through the overuse of fertilizers.

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Agric4profits

DECEMBER 25, 2024

Organic mushroom farming is a sustainable way of producing mushrooms without synthetic chemicals. Organic mushroom farming involves growing mushrooms using organic substrates like composted manure, straw, or sawdust.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 9, 2024

These activity books, cookbooks, and stories celebrate diverse foodways and farming practices from across the world, uplift the power of community, and celebrate all that pollinators do for global food and farming systems. At the end of the book, readers will also find detailed information about each farming practice.

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ATTRA

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

The New Earth Project is developing compost processes to create a symbiotic relationship and benefit the community. Carbon Capture through Composting New Earth collects food surplus from three school cafeterias and combines it with woody biomass, agricultural byproducts, and biochar in Johnson-Su compost bioreactors.

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Civil Eats

AUGUST 28, 2023

A bright blue tanker truck rumbles up the road to Longview Farm, a dairy operation in western Massachusetts. The waste grease, collected from a local pizzeria, a Mexican restaurant, and a pub, will be mixed with manure in the dairy farm’s anerobic co-digester and converted into renewable energy. Photo by Meg Wilcox.

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ATTRA

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Researchers from Kansas State University are exploring how different farming practices can affect the amount of carbon that gets stored in soil. They found that the soil treated with manure or compost fertilizer stores more carbon than soil that received either chemical fertilizer or no fertilizer.

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Civil Eats

MARCH 19, 2024

It’s also one with many potential uses ; it can be used as compost, as a means of decontaminating soil, as biofuel, and simply for growing more mushrooms. And while each of those uses could provide revenue potential for mushroom farms, the expanding piles of spent substrate also represent a mounting logistical challenge. “If

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Cropaia

DECEMBER 19, 2023

In recent years, there has been a growing interest in regenerative agriculture, a holistic approach to farming that seeks to restore and revitalize the land while improving crop yields and overall farm profitability. Improved soil health : Regenerative practices prioritize soil health, which is the foundation of successful farming.

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ATTRA

AUGUST 15, 2023

On the gate hangs an 18-inch-long pallet board with the words “Mad Farm” painted in green. Though I will invite a similar community on the farm next year, and they will be cousins of these plants, these will have passed once again into the soil, their essence to arise in next year’s tomatoes. This year was different.

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Agric4profits

JANUARY 9, 2025

Organic Alfalfa Farming is a sustainable agricultural practice focused on growing alfalfa without synthetic inputs. Organic Alfalfa Farming enhances soil fertility through natural composts, crop rotation, and green manure. This helps sustain long-term farm productivity and environmental health.

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Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

Fertilizer basics The concept of soil fertilization likely extends back 8,000 years, when early farmers added manure and bones to their crops. Nowadays, fertilizers are an essential part of farming, and there are plenty of options: synthetic or organic (think: manure or seaweed), liquid or dry options, and a wide variety of formulations.

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

For decades after the concept of biodynamic farming was introduced in 1924, there was an aura of witch and wizard mysticism and charmingly earnest cluelessness around biodynamic farming. But over the past 25 years, peer-reviewed scientific studies show that biodynamic farming enhances soil quality and biodiversity. Um, okaaaay.

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ATTRA

AUGUST 16, 2024

Scientists from the University of Maryland published the results of their research on improving urban soils with treated manure and compost amendments.

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 8, 2024

He found this disconcerting, not only for himself but the future of small-scale grain farming in California, once known for its golden hills of grain. This specialized, often professionally operated equipment—and all farm equipment , for that matter—can be prohibitively challenging for many farmers to buy and maintain.

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Kavya Organic Farm

AUGUST 24, 2023

Some examples of fertilising plants organically are; Agricultural waste Manure from livestock Industrial waste However, inorganic fertilisers exist too which are responsible for directly affecting the soil through chemicals. Molecules are added to the fertilising plants and this promotes soil enrichment and even reproduction amongst plants.

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Food Tank

OCTOBER 11, 2023

The brand’s Star Hill Farm is the first distillery farm to receive certification from Regenified for its commitment to soil, water, and ecosystem longevity. The company composts all fruit scraps, tea, herbs, cultures, and paper towels while also saving over 1,100 gallons of water per day through their recapture system.

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ATTRA

APRIL 30, 2024

By Chris Lent, NCAT Agriculture Specialist I’ve always found ways to turn “waste materials” into useful resources on the farm fascinating. On my farm, I tried to reuse and recycle resources as much as possible to close the off-farm input loop. I think farms can become more resilient as they rely on fewer off farm inputs.

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Agroforestry—the integration of trees and shrubs into crop and animal farming systems—has been used since ancient times to produce fruits, nuts, coffee, cocoa and medicinal herbs. Wendy Johnson’s ‘natural savannah’ Wendy Johnson and her husband, Johnny Rafkin, own Jóia Food & Fiber Farm, in Charles City, Iowa. Johnson laughs.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JULY 26, 2023

Dairy farmers are working to implement climate-smart manure management practices, and the COWS Act will offer the needed resources to enhance both air and water quality,” said Rob Larew, National Farmers Union President. “Getting the AMMP award sped up our plans to modernize our manure management system by about 10 years. .

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Sustainable Harvest International

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Our thousands of partner farmers are among many worldwide who are making the transition to regenerative farming techniques. With regenerative farming, nature’s balance gets reintroduced into the ecosystem, allowing the farmer to grow nutritious and sustainably produced food. In nature, everything leans towards balance.

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UnderstandingAg

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

You can also add carbon via humic products or compost, but the most efficient route is to let plants do the work for us. Fertilizers and animal manures are a special case, because whether the ultimate result is net positive or negative depends on how they are managed. Adding too much nitrogen has the same result as tillage.

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UnderstandingAg

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Our family farm in Northeast Iowa with 3% SOM in the top six inches has about 67,000 lbs. We typically add very little carbon to our fields unless we are adding a lot of manure or compost. Composting humanure was a common practice historically, but now it is often contaminated with pharmaceuticals and heavy metals.

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ATTRA

OCTOBER 30, 2023

These include rotating crops, rotational grazing, special energy-efficient equipment, manure composting, and a truck that runs on used vegetable oil. Related ATTRA publication: Dairy Farm Energy Efficiency They have implemented a range of measures to store carbon, save energy, and make their far more resilient.

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ATTRA

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Biochar is created by heating biomass, such as forest waste or animal manure, in a low-oxygen environment—a process known as pyrolysis. To contend with these issues, the project composts the poultry litter and combines it with biochar made from forest and sawmill waste and poultry litter. If passed, the bill will authorize the U.S.

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CalCAN

AUGUST 15, 2023

CalCAN is one of hundreds of sustainable, organic, and family farming organizations across the country that is engaged in farm bill advocacy this year. The original farm bill was enacted during the 1930s in part as a response to the Dust Bowl and the Great Depression, and was an element of President Roosevelt’s New Deal legislation.

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RR2CS

JANUARY 13, 2022

By Trina Moyles Jenny Berkenbosch and James Vriend manage Sundog Organic Farm , a 14-acre certified organic vegetable and herb operation, located north of Edmonton in Sturgeon County. She’s two generations disconnected from farming, whereas, James grew up on an organic farm, managed by his parents, Dennis and Ruth Vriend, outside of Edmonton.

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Cropaia

MAY 25, 2024

As part of regenerative agriculture practices, biochar provides a means to improve soil properties, sequester carbon, and enhance overall farm sustainability. It is a stable form of charcoal created by heating organic materials, such as crop residues, wood chips, and manure, in the absence of oxygen. What is Biochar?

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Caff

APRIL 22, 2021

“The ARA adopts many strategies pioneered in California” said CAFF Policy Director, Dave Runsten, “such as the Healthy Soils Program, the diversion of organic matter from landfills, and the Alternative Manure Management Program. 100 million a year would be available for compost infrastructure.

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ATTRA

OCTOBER 31, 2023

If you have an unkempt area on a farm, some highly predator- resistant fencing and a few goats will get it under control tout de suite! Instead of throwing garden refuse away or composting it, one could instead chop it up and drop it as mulch back into the garden. That’s a great trait for land-clearing.

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Caff

OCTOBER 22, 2024

On September 19th, Community Alliance with Family Farmers held a field day at Vitis and Ovis farm in Capay Valley, CA. Gisèle Herren of Vitis and Ovis Farm alongside their flock of grazing ducks. Hans Herren showing attendees an on-farm device as he discussed their experience in making compost tea.

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Modern Farmer

JULY 10, 2023

But the epic flooding this past March was simply unprecedented, says the owner of Lerda-Goni Farms. The torrent overwhelmed dams, swelled rivers and crumbled levees, inundating entire farming communities, including Lerda-Goni and a dozen other ranches, and reawakening a long-dormant lake lying beneath the vast agricultural region.

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ATTRA

JANUARY 2, 2024

When you step into a high tunnel, you’re moving off your farm in terms of temperature, humidity, and frost dates. Salts from added compost, manure, or fertilizers can build up in the rain-free environment of a tunnel and accumulate near the soil surface, affecting crop growth.

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CalCAN

MAY 17, 2023

FY 2022-23: $70 million ($15 million reduction (18%) from the original $85 million allocated) FY 2023-24: $10 million allocated State Water Efficiency and Enhancement Program (SWEEP): Funds on-farm water efficiency improvements such as electric and solar pumps, improved irrigation equipment and soil moisture monitoring. AB 408 proposes a $3.4

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Sustainable Food Trust

MAY 16, 2023

When we quit our jobs to start farming, we had a small budget and lots of enthusiasm. We were going to do this with no farming experience, no side hustles and no farm subsidies. We went about building our farm – Parc Carreg – using a combination of organic regenerative practices and permaculture design principles.

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

But this strategy is not just ensuring the long-term health of species, it is creating opportunities to preserve traditional culture, farm greener, prepare for more extreme weather and eat healthier. It even includes the specific type of manure Joly selects to fertilize his vineyards. Nantaise cow in the Loire Valley.

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Farmbrite

JUNE 19, 2023

Starting a Fruit Orchard on Your Farm Growing fruit trees or nut trees on your farm is a great way to be more self-sufficient and a great way to add items to your CSA, use the unwanted fruit to supplement feed for your animals, sell at your local farmers market or for personal use. Plant your trees! prepared for the long haul.

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Farmbrite

AUGUST 23, 2023

Soil is the foundation of your farm, the living system that provides nutrition for all the plants and animals that live there. Here are six ways you can improve long-term soil health on your farm: What is soil health? Rotating crops is one of the best ways to improve long-term soil health on your farm. Rotate your crops.

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