National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Many conventional farmers implement organic practices such as compost applications, diversified rotations, cover cropping, or biological integrated pest management (IPM) to build healthy soil and reduce the direct and environmental costs of production.

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CalCAN

JUNE 21, 2023

Nate Gonzalez-Siemens of Fat Uncle Farms and Melissa Sorongon of Piedrasassi are somewhat unusual in the Central Coast and south San Joaquin Valley: they are both small-scale farmers who grow grain as part of their diversified operations. Their neighbors’ operations include vineyards, orchards, grain and vegetables.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 23, 2024

. “Dog food” is regulated loosely compared to human fare, allowing even meat deemed unfit for human consumption due to things such as disease and contamination and moldy grains , a recipe for endless pet food recalls. Like the hog tails, hides, organs, and hooves that aren’t always suitable for compost.

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Food Farming Farming Compost 112

UnderstandingAg

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Another portion of carbon is removed when the grain is harvested. 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. The diagram shows that this is true.

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

They ate grains that couldn’t be sold.” Photos courtesy of Wendy Johnson) The sheep were getting sick from eating too much grain, so Johnson worked to reestablish a natural savanna, a mixed woodland and grassland ecosystem that had once been prevalent on Iowa’s landscape but was destroyed by grazing and row crops. Johnson laughs.

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Modern Farmer

MARCH 21, 2024

At the end of the day, the important part is that your soil mix is compactable but still possesses good drainage, which is why many folks recommend a blend that includes finely sifted compost (or potting soil) and coconut coir. I recommend experimenting to see what works for you and coming up with your own special blend.

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Food Tank

OCTOBER 7, 2023

Consumers often don’t think about the potato peels, cheese whey, or the brewer’s spent grain left over from their production. “Brewer’s spent grain retains a substantial number of proteins and fibers,” explains Maarten, noting that these components used as new ingredients for food products such as pasta and bread.

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Caff

APRIL 22, 2021

100 million a year would be available for compost infrastructure. “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.

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Agriculture Agriculture Manure Compost 52

Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

These ingredients are endlessly diverse, including spent grains from beer production, ripe fruit that is too small for supermarket standards and cacao pulp from the process of making chocolate bars, but they share a similar origin story. Compost whatever you cannot eat.”

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

DECEMBER 15, 2023

As he transitions toward a farm that is more resilient, he has adopted a no-till system and a much more well-rounded rotation that includes small grains. The grains help reduce his risk during drier periods, and maintain his soil during wet periods. She also employs cover crops, composting, and reduced tillage.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Grover established a peach orchard in 1935, and cultivated grain and raised livestock until the late 1970s. He fertilizes with compost tea, a mixture he creates of compost and water. On the side, he ran a general store that contained a butcher shopand even had part ownership of a bodega in Brooklyn, New York.

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Plantation Farming Farming Acre 144

Civil Eats

JUNE 10, 2024

.” From neat bins, glass jars, and metal canisters, the certified B-Corp offers more than 500 refillable bulk goods including snacks, seeds and nuts, coffee and tea, oils and vinegars, cereals and grains, household items, and bath and body products.

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Supply Chain Food Compost Production 140

UnderstandingAg

OCTOBER 29, 2023

Although no-till implies not tilling at all, many no-till market gardeners still rely on some form of light tillage to create a seed bed or apply copious amounts of compost as a mulch to create a seed bed. Flail mow and direct seed with a grain drill – This is the best method in a larger-scale commercial garden (1+ acre).

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Crop Cash Crop Seeding Harvesting 105

Modern Farmer

JANUARY 15, 2024

Small footprint, big potential “Microgreens” is a term used to describe the tender, edible seedlings of various herbs, vegetables and grains typically seeded in shallow, soil-filled trays, grown under natural or artificial light, then harvested within two weeks of germination. Photography submitted by Don DiLillo, Finest Foods.

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Cultivation Crop Real Estate Food 124

Modern Farmer

APRIL 3, 2024

So, the experiment combined “technosol,” also known as human-engineered soil, a mix of sediment and compost, in different ratios. The nutritious grain from Africa possesses numerous agronomic and sustainable properties that can help soil store carbon. Urban soil is very different from rural soil, which is much less disturbed by humans.

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Civil Eats

AUGUST 16, 2023

The birds spend every day outside—where they eat a combination of dry grain, sprouted grain, bugs, and plants—in one paddock, and when the plants there have been sufficiently grazed down, they’re moved to a second one. They’re also working on adding a composting processing site, neighbor approval pending. “We

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Poultry Processing Acre Farming 98

Modern Farmer

AUGUST 1, 2024

The Homestead grows vegetables, herbs, grains, and animals such as ducks, pigs, and chickens. The collective houses their two farms, and they sublease portions of the property to other businesses, currently a vermicompost venture (creating high-quality compost with worm castings) and a tool library for local farmers.

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Real Estate Farming Farming Acre 117

Cropaia

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Application of molybdenum-containing fertilizers or organic amendments such as compost can help alleviate deficiencies. Soybeans) Yellowing of leaf margins: The older leaves often show a characteristic yellowing at the margins, progressing towards the center.

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Crop Fertilizer Mechanics Seeding 94

Civil Eats

DECEMBER 11, 2023

On a sunny afternoon in September 2021, Michael Langford was moving compost with his compact John Deere. The six tons of grain he was towing suddenly piled forward in the wagon. The front bucket was half full as he drove the tractor forward on a gentle slope of his 10-acre produce and poultry farm in Greensboro, Georgia.

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Tractor Farming Farming Acre 138

RR2CS

AUGUST 28, 2023

The three farms I went to could not have been more different: a vineyard in Nova Scotia, a vegetable farm with livestock in New Brunswick and a grain farm in southern Saskatchewan. However, the agricultural producers I met—Rachel, Rébeka, Tannis and Derek—still had a lot in common.

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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. Isn’t that beautiful?

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Agriculture Agriculture Fertilizer Manure 52

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

MAY 10, 2024

Expands the types of “new or innovative conservation approaches” funded through On-Farm Conservation Innovation Trials to include on-farm nutrient recycling, perennial production systems including agroforestry and perennial forages and grain crops, and livestock-related practices that reduce GHG emissions including enteric methane emissions.

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Ruralism Food Farming Farming 110

CalCAN

APRIL 6, 2023

Holistic land management that builds diversity of crops and livestock , adds perennials in the form of agroforestry and deep-rooted perennial grasses like grains, keeps the soil covered and living roots in the ground , and integrates livestock into the landscape all represent highly effective climate and agriculture solutions.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 24, 2024

By rescuing surplus food from the hospitality sector, such as hotels, restaurants, and bakeries, the organization redistributes edible food to those in need while diverting expired food to farms for animal feed and composting. Since its inception, Garda Pangan has rescued more than 8 tons of food, benefiting tens of thousands of people.

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Food Agriculture Agriculture Ruralism 139

RR2CS

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Instead, we are fall ridging for potatoes directly into grain stubble, using our irrigation to get the soil to the right moisture, to enable a single pass. They don’t treat any of their grain seed, along with some varieties of their potatoes. “As Our fall ridger has a valmar that we use to seed a multi-species cover crop.”

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Farming Farming Crop Manure 52

Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

But the pause in Climate-Smart Commodities grants is having particularly wide-reaching impacts, since the investment was so large, the program was just getting off the ground, and thousands of farmsfrom small dairies in the Northeast to large commodity grain operations in the Midwest are involved.

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