Caff

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Rachel’s Greathouse Garden About Rachel Greathouse Rachel Greathouse is owner of Greathouse Garden, a small farm based out of Missouri which specializes in storage and staple crops. She designed an innovative solution for their small farm which has dramatically improved their process for harvesting and drying crops such as onions and garlic.

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Kavya Organic Farm

JULY 22, 2023

Polyhouse farming has revolutionized agriculture in India, allowing farmers to grow crops under controlled environments and increase their yield and income. The subsidy is aimed at supporting farmers who wish to set up polyhouse structures to cultivate crops in protected environments.

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Civil Eats

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Jordan Macknick from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory—which conducts agrivoltaics research in California—includes solar combined with specialty and commodity crops, solar with livestock, solar with land providing pollinator habitat or ecosystem services, and solar-integrated greenhouses in the list of approaches.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Last year, the foundation supported the production of a report on greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture , which played a significant role in the national conversation around regenerative agriculture. That is just absolutely unheard of,” he says. Absent charitable investment, Walmart is the only stop for produce in many other small towns.

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Hartwood Farm

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

But on a farm of our scale and crop mix, time is the main limiting factor! Last year we had something around 700 plantings total, of over 150 crop varieties, and each was handled slightly differently at each stage (seed starting, greenhouse water and heat, planting, cultivation, harvesting, and post-harvest).

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Agritecture Blog

APRIL 12, 2023

Associate professor of Horticulture, Neil Mattson, teaches a student in one of Cornell’s on-campus greenhouses. Credit: Greenhouse Product News. A student applies skills learned in a campus greenhouse at Stockton University. Credit: Cornell Chronicle. With the global population expected to reach 9.7 Credit: Stockton University.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JANUARY 17, 2024

For example, increasing aridity in the Southwest and increasingly wet conditions throughout the northeast regions of the country–from the Midwest through New England–are likely to challenge crop and livestock production. from NCA5 Higher temperatures can stress both crops and livestock. will leave the area increasingly vulnerable.

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Food Tank

MAY 1, 2024

Approximately 2 percent of all greenhouse gas emissions come from nitrogen fertilizers , according to a study in Nature. For example, the agrochemical company, Yara, is constructing a CCS plant with ExxonMobil and TotalEnergies next to its ammonia plant.

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Agritecture Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2022

This umbrella term includes topics such as biophilic design, an approach to architecture that seeks to connect building occupants more closely to nature; net-zero buildings , constructing new or retrofitting existing buildings for energy efficiency , passive house design ; and so on and so forth.

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Agritecture Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

And the optimized, modular growing environments provide the flexibility to expand crop diversity. We've done a lot of analysis comparing our farming costs to traditional farms and greenhouses, and we are close in all categories. HGS: What is the largest farm you have constructed using the container methodology?

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Civil Eats

JUNE 29, 2023

Torres had been a city boy, raised in Guadalajara, and he was the son of a construction worker. And after the group had fixed the farm up, putting up a greenhouse, and breathed new life into its rows of red raspberries, the owner wanted it back. Chilcayote and nopal seedlings in a Tierra y Libertad greenhouse.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JUNE 14, 2023

From this dishonorable top 10 list, at least eight could be considered industrial, with practices targeted toward large-scale, animal or commodity crop operations. The most expensive EQIP grant an individual farm can receive is for the construction of a methane digester, which is over $280,000 on average. water resources.

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Civil Eats

AUGUST 14, 2024

In the book, Jackson tells stories of measuring both the staggering greenhouse gas emissions gas stoves produce and the dangerous levels of air pollutants home cooks breathe in as they sauté and roast (even long after the burners are off). So, I think we need to favor reach codes that require future construction to be all electric.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 5, 2023

With instructions on how to choose the heartiest cultivars, “harden” them for winter, and outfit a greenhouse to keep vegetables just warm enough without using massive amounts of energy, The Winter Market Gardener makes a strong case for winter growing.

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Agwired

OCTOBER 18, 2023

As cornfields suffer crop damage caused by weather, corn producers can use geospatial and remote sensing technologies to get a more accurate measurement of the damage and estimate potential economic loss, according to a recent study published in Frontiers in Agronomy. The construction of the 720,000 sq.

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

” Broadly speaking, regenerative agriculture improves soil health and carbon sequestration through diverse crop rotations, animal grazing, limited tillage, and reduced (or eliminated) external inputs like fertilizer and pesticides. I listened and said, You are stepping into muddy waters here.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 18, 2024

The monotonous succession of stricken row crops flashed by. Intel took advantage of state incentives to build a new computer chip factory in New Albany, Ohio, seen here under construction in summer 2024. They worried about damage to their farms, to drainage tiles and crop yields. It had been a brutal harvest for Ohios farmers.

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Civil Eats

MARCH 21, 2025

More than half of the grantees participated, calling in from greenhouses, living rooms, and pickup trucks, he said. Most of those workers were on H-2B visas, which cover some food-system jobs but primarily focus on other kinds of work, including landscaping and construction. The crop goes in the ground in a month.

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Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

has committed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 50 to 52 percent below 2005 levels, and expects to supply up to 13 million electric vehicles annually. Severe droughts are one of the factors that have destabilized the global crop market in recent years, translating to higher U.S. grocery store prices.

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