ATTRA

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Six years later, Soil Cycle has gone from Lewis picking up scraps from a few clients to six bikers transporting upwards of 60,000 pounds of compost per year. With a bigger staff and a new executive director, they also educate the community, create quality natural fertilizers, and take compost to a new level, all while remaining human-powered.

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Civil Eats

AUGUST 28, 2023

The addition of food waste in co-digesters enables small and mid-sized dairies like Longview, which has 600 cows and doesn’t produce enough manure for a traditional methane digester, to access the technology. pioneer of the technology. We’ve kind of cracked the code [of the logistics, technology, and economics for the U.S.,]

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Modern Farmer

JULY 30, 2024

Ecovative Design is a technology company focused on using mycelium—the fine white vegetative filaments of fungus—to solve human needs. Van Hook uses old mycelium buoy prototypes in her garden, where she never has to add fertilizer or composite thanks to the nutrition of the fungus. “You

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ATTRA

AUGUST 15, 2023

On the Mad Farm, this is enacted through compost and especially the cover crops that occupy space on the gardens each season. I rely on these crops, idealistically to bolster hope, and practically to provide most if not all the fertility my garden crops need to live fully and produce quality fruits. ATTRA.NCAT.ORG.

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ATTRA

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Instead of throwing garden refuse away or composting it, one could instead chop it up and drop it as mulch back into the garden. Both “cut and carry” and “chop and drop” allow for nutrient cycling, especially if the goat manure can be collected and used to fertilize the trees they are eating, closing that loop. ATTRA.NCAT.ORG.

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ATTRA

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Darker soils, better water infiltration, less fertilizer. year after year, usually with a non-cover fallow, intensive moldboard plowing, and the additions of synthetic nitrogen fertilizer. To practice what I suggest others do — plant, observe, and adapt. In the past 13 years, I have noticed the difference covers make in my gardens.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 23, 2024

Like the hog tails, hides, organs, and hooves that aren’t always suitable for compost. Initially, they partnered with a composting facility, capturing suitable meat and vegetable scraps, which they now collect directly from a variety of sources. Their excrement, frass, is a rich fertilizer for agriculture.

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ATTRA

MARCH 26, 2024

This video was produced by the National Center for Appropriate Technology through the ATTRA Sustainable Agriculture program, under a cooperative agreement with USDA Rural Development. Croix, US Virgin Islands, delves into the innovative market diversification strategies that have propelled him to his farming success.

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ATTRA

DECEMBER 6, 2023

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. The result is a soil conditioner to help farmers build healthy soil and reduce the application of expensive fertilizers that can harm the Arkansas River watershed.

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OECD: Environment

MAY 30, 2023

by Sho Yamasaki, OECD Environment Directorate Israel is one of the world’s most arid countries, but its small open economy is fertile ground for tech-driven innovation. Technological innovation has also contributed to addressing environmental issues, such as water scarcity.

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Kavya Organic Farm

OCTOBER 10, 2023

If your garden soil tends to be heavy or clayey, consider adding organic matter like compost to improve drainage. Fertilization: Fertilize sparingly in spring with a balanced, slow-release fertilizer. Avoid excessive fertilization, as this shrub doesn’t have high nutrient requirements.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

CIG Classic Basics Part of the Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP), the CIG program is administered by NRCS and provides grant funding for the development, application, and demonstration of innovative conservation technologies and approaches. fertilizer or feed). They use energy directly (e.g.,

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Modern Farmer

MARCH 1, 2024

Companies are working on technology to make it easier—yet thousands of dangerous chemicals are used to make plastic goods and researchers are sounding the alarm about recycling them. MII focuses on the goals of production, not the technologies used. According to its website, the material decays in controlled composting conditions.

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 15, 2024

Basements and garages have long been fertile ground for innovation, with a host of well-known companies including Apple, Amazon and Harley-Davidson tracing back to humble residential roots. Recently, these unassuming spaces are cultivating a new trend in home-grown businesses.

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Civil Eats

MARCH 5, 2024

Mountain ranges trap emissions from highway traffic, locomotives, municipal composting facilities, tractors, and burning. Ammonium nitrate forms when nitrogen oxides, a by-product of combustion from sources such as trucks and tractors, combines with atmospheric ammonia from fertilizers, which are abundant in the valley.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

JUNE 7, 2024

In the race to reduce such food waste, some farmers are turning to technologies to conserve resources and cut losses before produce even leaves the farm. They are using composting systems and anaerobic digesters to turn waste into fertilizer for the next planting. But technology only gets us so far.

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Daily Yonder

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Since we had land—and we also had a good relationship with the local Farmer’s Cooperative, which generously donated seeds, plants, and fertilizer—a garden felt like a good way to support the community. We can’t “technology” ourselves out of environmental and social crises. I was searching for some way to help.

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CalCAN

APRIL 6, 2023

The information provided under the Sustainable Agriculture Technology Development and Transfer Program will include a focus on outreach and training that educates on cover crops, perennial production, integrated crop-livestock systems, ecologically-based pest management, and organic farming along with previous foci.

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Modern Farmer

JULY 10, 2023

Within decades, a network of dams, levees and canals had dried up the basin, transforming the fertile crater into an agricultural hub. They’re currently the only technology in the entire state that reduces methane,” she adds. For their part, dairy farmers are duly engaged in sustainability efforts, says Raudabaugh.

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Sustainable Food Trust

AUGUST 9, 2023

Alexander starts with the pea which developed widely across the globe beginning in the Fertile Crescent, where it dates back 8500 years to Neolithic settlements. Early warnings of the potentially damaging effects of industrial agriculture and food processing technologies upon planetary and human health provoked a vehement backlash.

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The Lunatic Farmer

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Blessings, joel HILLSDALE COLLEGE PARALLEL ECONOMIES—AGRICULTURE Joel Salatin This spring when Russia invaded Ukraine, fertilizer prices increased in some cases 400 percent and global grain shipments sputtered, our farm didn’t feel anything because we don’t buy fertilizer and we don’t buy foreign grain. A cheap road-building policy?

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

MAY 10, 2024

Alternative Manure Management Program (AMMP) The RPFSA does not contain a proposal to support AMMP technologies as envisioned in the ARA or the COWS Act. However, NSAC is disheartened to see no reference to establishing composting as a national practice standard in the RPFSA. 11103, 11208).

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Modern Farmer

APRIL 3, 2024

It also improves soil’s fertility, its structure for conveying nutrients and capacity to retain water. Then also, ‘what can we learn from soil?’” Farming methods over the past 50 years, such as growing monocultures and fertilizing depleted soil to prop up the system, are shortsighted, says Singer.

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RR2CS

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

My research focus was on healthy soils for healthy crops for healthy populations,” says Harold, who traveled to New Zealand, California, and Mexico to learn about different agricultural systems and technologies. The Perry’s also source manure from neighbouring feedlots to compost and mix into the soil.

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